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this summer brim full : * & raised the Landsprings in y e 

 fields, so as to damage the paths. 



Septem r - 5. Earth'd-up early row of Celeri to the 

 top. 



Eat a brace of Cantaleupes at the Hermitage : the 

 black, rough one very high flavoured. Shady, showery 

 weather. Saved the seed. 



Pulled-up the Onions, & Eshallots, & laid them to dry. 

 Onions begin to rot with y e wet. 



7. Eat a very delicate Cantaleupe : it had a bottle- 

 nose, & grew close to the stem. Sav'd y e seed. Shady, 

 showery weather : now a vast rain. 



Septem r - 8. Cut first Endives. 



Vast rains still. 



9. This day ten weeks the wet season began. 



10. The Cantaleupes threaten to come all together. 

 Cut two brace, & half to day. 



12. Held a Cantaleupe feast at y e Hermitage : 2 cut up 

 a brace & an half of fruit among 14 people. Weather very 

 fine ever since the ninth. 



13. Planted -out two rows of Polyanths down the 

 border next Lasham's. Should have been transplanted 

 many weeks ago, if the wet weather had not prevented. 



14. Eat a brace & half of Cantaleupes. 



1 Mr. Maxwell has taken great pains to identify the various localities men- 

 tioned by Gilbert White. Seeing that this "Kalendar" was written nearly 

 150 years ago, and that many of the families, such as the Kelceys, the 

 Berrimans, and others, have become extinct, or have left the village, this has 

 been no easy task. Mr. Maxwell, however, has interviewed many of the oldest 

 inhabitants, and has thus identified many places which I myself should never 

 have managed to do. In the present case, for instance, he has found that James 

 Knight's ponds were at Coneycroft. They were the old fish-ponds belonging to 

 the Priory, where the stock of Carp, Tench, &c., were preserved. They are 

 now dry, or only hold a little water after heavy rains, such as we had at 

 Selborne in the first week of November 1899, when Mr. Maxwell found the 

 record of the week to have been five inches. [R. B. S.] 



2 Mr. Grant Allen in his map of the village gives the site of the " Hermitage " 

 as outside the "Zigzag." Mr. Maxwell tells me that his father spoke of the 

 Hermitage as being on the Bostal, which is much more likely to be correct, as 

 it would be close to White's property. Mr. Grant Allen places the "Alcove" 

 where local tradition assigns the site of the " Hermitage." -[R. B. S.] 



