108 GILBERT WHITE OF SELBOENE 1733 



Mrs. Etty and Co. returned last Friday all well. 

 Pray bring me a Is. box of Greenough's lozenges of 

 Balsam of Tolu. 



We all join in respects. 



Y"* loving and affecte Uncle, 



Gil. White. 



From the Naturalist's Journal — 



"Sep. 13. Began to mend the dirty parts of the Bostal 

 with chalk. 



"Brought down by brother Thomas White from South 

 Lambeth and planted in my borders 



"Dog toothed violets. Persian Iris. Quercus cerris. 

 Double ulmaria. Double filipendula. Double blue Cam- 

 panula. Large pansies. Double daisies. Hemorocallis. 

 White foxglove. Double wall-flower. Double scarlet 

 lynchis. 



"Planted from Mr. Etty's garden a root of the Arum 

 dracunculus, or Dragons, a species rarely to be seen ; but has 

 been in the vicarage garden ever since the time of my 

 Grandfather, who dyed in spring 172|. 



" Oct. 4. This day has been at Selborne the honey-market : 

 for a person from Chert came over with a cart, to whom all 

 the villagers round brought their hives, and sold their 

 contents. Combs were sold last year at about S^d. per 

 pound; this year from 3fd-4d" 



To Miss White. -n. ^ 1 1 -kt n -, t^oo 



Fyfield, Nov. 6, 1783. 



Dear Niece, — When I desired you to procure me some fit 

 stockings, I was afraid that I had enjoined you a trouble- 

 some task ; however I return you many thanks for the pains 

 you have taken, and would wish to have some knit, provided 

 you think there is any probability of success ; but I once 

 bespoke some in that way, and when they came they were 



