120 GILBEET WHITE OF SELBOKNE mi 



I observe you are not for us this spring. There is a 

 wall between us, but no gulf, indeed we long for the 

 sight of you." 



In April he paid "Fine Copy and Fees for the new 

 garden" to Magdalen College, Oxford, the owner 

 of the manor of Selborne. 



In May, 1761, the Garden Kalendar contains a 

 long entry, commencing — 



" May 20 — My brother Tho and I went down with a spade 

 to examine into the nature of those animals that make that 

 chearful shrill cry all the summer months in many parts 

 of the south of England." 



This entry, subsequently re-written, became the 

 forty - sixth letter to Barrington. The Garden 

 Kalendar continues — 



" June 21 — Discovered a curious orchis in the hollow 

 shady part of Newton-lane, just beyond the Cross. It is 

 the orchis alba hifolia minor calcari oUongo; grew with a very 

 long stem, and has been in flower some weeks. I brought 

 away the flower, and marked the root, intending to trans- 

 plant it into the garden, when the leaves are withered." 



Later there is mention of another improvement 

 which remains, in part at least, to this day in the 

 garden of The Wakes. 



" July 25. Finished my fruit wall, coping the two returns 

 at the end with stones of a sandy nature out of the old 

 Priory. The coping bricks were full of flaws and cracks, 

 being made of earth not well prepared, and instead of over- 

 hanging the wall, came but just flush with it : however, by 

 using six that were broken-ended, we had just enough, and 

 they may lie on the wall many years." 



