284 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



Now very dry, & warm : but there are great tokens of 

 rain. 



ii. Now great rains, & wind. 



Tunn'd three quarters of an Hogsh : of raisin-wine. 

 The Quantity of raisins in the mash-vat were i hund : & 

 half of Symrnas, & 3 Quarters of an hundred of Malagas. 



The Quantity of water put-up was 18 3-gallon-buckets ; 

 which made sufficient Quantity without any squeesing. 

 The Colouring was 14 Quarts of Elder-syrop. The weather 

 was so hot that it stood but eleven days to ferment in the 

 vat. The elder-Juice was boiled-up with 14 pounds of 

 sugar. 



Octob r - 16. Finished-off the bank in the new-Garden, 

 & planted the front row of the additional part with pinks 

 both red, & pheasant-eyed : laid it with turf some days agon. 



On measuring the great oak in the meadow which was 

 measured in y e spring, I found it to be encreased in girth 

 about one inch. 



1 8. The mornings begin to be frosty, yet y e Grapes 

 continue in high perfection. 



19. Finished a broad brick-walk thro' y e new wicket at 

 the end of the dining-room ; & carryed a narrow one up 

 by the side of y e pitching to the orchard-walk : rectifyed 

 the broken pitching, & turned the gutter at the brewhouse 

 door, so as to get a 12 inch border four feet long for a 

 white-muscadine-vine. 



22. Planted a row of Coss-lettuce touching the wall 

 along the vine-border tinder the dining-room window to 

 stand the winter. Planted a row of Holy oaks against the 

 boards of the wood-house. 



24. Planted the irregular slip without the new wicket 

 in the Garden with first two rows of Crocuss ; a row of 

 pinks ; several sorts of roses ; Persian Jasmine, & yellow 

 D- several sorts of Asters ; French-Willows ; a curious sort 

 of bloody wallflowers ; Double Campanulas white, & blue ; 

 double daisies ; & a row against the hedge of good rooted 

 Laurustines. Planted the back row of the part of the bank 

 newly lengthened-out with blue, & white Double Cam- 



