The Natural History of Selborne

Very few apples or pears.  Cherries hardly begin to turn.  Wood straw berries turn.

Polygala vulg. in flower.  Mole-cricket churs.

Phallus impudicus olet.  Young daws come forth.  Cut my St. foin: a vast crop.  Vast showers about.

Sultry.  Showers at a distance.  The thermr 73 abroad in the shade.

Sultry.  Thunder-like clouds rising on all sides.  Heavy rain.  Roses blow but poorly.  Large titmouse makes his spring note.

Red pinks begin to blow.  Blackcap sings sweetly.  Titlark sings, & black bird.

Cuckow sings.  Quail calls.  Wheat begins to blow.

Farmers do not care to persist in cutting their St. foin.  The thermometer fluctuates between 29 & 29 & 1/2.  The Rooks pursue & catch the chafers as they flie, whole woods of oaks are stripped bare by the chafers.

A pound of trufles were found by a trufle-hunter in my Brother’s grove.

Trufles begin to be found.  Chafers still appear.