CHAPTER VII. 



Probably Gilbert White was by this time beginning 

 n realise that Selborne would always be his resi- 

 lence, since the Garden Kalendar records in June, 

 1760, that he "agreed with John Wells to purchase 

 the upper part of Lassam's orchard," which was 

 added to the premises of "The Wakes." A little 

 later he writes : — 



' TuU and John * are busy every day in grubbing, paring, 

 and burning the new purchased garden." 



On August 11th, 1760, Mulso writes : — 



"If you have the same course of weather we have here, 

 you have not yet dined in The Hermitage. The image of 

 that place, and the pleasures we enjoyed from the circle that 

 belonged to it, are so strong in our minds that we feel your 

 disappointment as if the case was our own. I look up to the 

 picture of it (it hangs over my study door) and fill myself 

 with many a friendly thought. I enjoy your new purchase 

 extremely ; I see the alteration, I could draw it now, but I 



* Robin Tull was occasionally employed in the garden. An entry of 

 "John's livery" in 1760 shows that John (?Lassani) was now the regular 

 manservant. 



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