The Natural History of Selborne

Blue mist; & the smell (as the Country people say) of London smoke.

Cucumber shows rudiments of fruit.  Turned out pots of cucumber into the great bed.

Made the four-light Cucumr bed with 8 cart-loads of dung.  Cucumr blows in male bloom.

The Ground and paths drie very fast.  Wheat is fed down by sheep.  Beans are planted in ye fields.  Pease sown.  Cut down the new planted nectarines.

Cucumrs shew side-shoots.  Female yew tree shows rudiments of fruit.

Wet continues still: has lasted three weeks this day. Pinched off the tops of the cucumber plants, which have several joins.

The missel-thrush, turdus viscivorus major (called in Hants & Sussex the stormcock) sings.

Cucumber plants thrive, and show their claspers.

Great rain.  Prodigious floods in Yorkshire, which have swept away all the bridges.

Cucumber plants show two rough leaves.  Forward turneps rot. Evergreens appear more damaged than at first was imagined, especially those in sunny aspects.  Bees gather on ye winter aconite.  Arbutus but little damaged by the frost.  Ilex much hurt.  Hollies, pinched by the frost, cast their leaves.  Laurustinus killed to the ground.