122 GILBEET WHITE OF SELBORNE mi 



for recording our friendship with so much warmth. It is, in 

 my esteem, one of those blessings of God, which partake 

 of his nature, and are therefore inestimable." 



On November 17th, 1761, Miss Rebecca White 

 married her cousin, Mr. Henry Woods, whose father 

 resided at Chilgrove, near Chichester, and went to live 

 in London ; leaving her brother, the last of the once 

 numerous family, at Selborne. Apparently he 

 solaced himself with continued improvements in his 

 garden. On December 30th he records in the 

 Garden Kalendar — 



" By the negligence of Murdoch Middleton my wall-trees 

 never came till the 26th. They are in general good trees, 

 and were planted, (considering the wetness of the season,) in 

 good condition ; and in the following order, beginning from 

 the terrass. 



" Breda apricot : Sweetwater vine : Eoman nectar : Mr. 

 Snooke's black- cluster vine : Eoman Nect. white Muscadine 

 vine : Mrs. Sn. Newington nectar : Mur : Middleton's Sweet- 

 water vine : Nobless-peach : Mr, Sn. white Muscadine vine : 

 Nobless-peach : John Hale's two Passion flowers, one at each 

 end of the wall. 



"Planted two Cistus's in Mr. Etty's dry garden; and 

 a Phlomis, and an Halimus in my own." 



In December, 1761, a journey was made to the 

 vicarage of Moreton Pinkney. Keferring to this, 

 Mulso writes on February 5th, 1762 : — 



" We wish you joy of your sister's wedding, tho' it is now 

 almost an old history; as I remember I did before it was 

 solemnised. But what a Hussar Parson do you still continue 

 to be ? and how did you giddy me and hurry me along with 

 your account of your Journey, as bad as Tristram Shandy's 



