1764 VISITS FYFIELD— WHITES VEESES 143 



Meanwhile the heart-whole bachelor at Selborne 

 continued to record contentedly in that veritable 

 journal of Adam in Paradise, his Garden Kalendar, 

 the exact particulars of brewing his strong beer and 

 bottling "half an Hogsh. of Mrs. Atherley's Port 

 wine," which had, he notices, '* not quite so good 

 a smell and flavour as usual, and seemed always to 

 show a disposition to mantle in the glass." Later on 

 in the spring he made his usual journey to Oxford, and 

 paid his brother at Fyfield two visits in the summer. 

 In the intervals he engaged in thinning and tack- 

 ing his peaches and nectarines "in a very regular 

 manner," and in March sent some verses to Mulso, 

 which the latter pronounced "as good as ever you 

 wrote ; they are full of lively Description, of Natural 

 Painting, of Tenderness, and Elegance." 

 Mulso writes on June 29th, 1764 : — 

 " My brother has described to me your new alterations ! " 

 He goes on to describe a ball given at his house in 

 Yorkshire — 



" How would you have stared ! and what music book must 

 I have got for you to have studied in a corner ? " 



Mentioning his having to part with a horse of his 

 own, he remarks — 



"I have no idea of a separation between you and a 

 horse, who were once the centaur not fabulous^ 



In September the Garden Kalendar records : — 

 " Got a stone mason to fix the stone with my name and 

 the date of the wall in the middle of the fruit wall. When 

 the mason came to chizzel a hole for the stone he found the 

 wall perfectly sound, dry, and hard." 



