326 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



The Grapes begin to turn Colour. 



Planted in the new garden two trenches more of Celeri ; 

 & two of M r - Missing's parsley-leaved Celeriac. M r - Etty's 

 Nectarines, & Peaches begin to shew their fine ripening 

 Colours. 



13. Frequent heavy thundershowers with hot growing 

 weather. 



14. Hot moist weather. The Succades have plenty of 

 new wood, & shew several brace of promising second-crop 

 fruit. 



The grass-walks have in ten days quite recovered their 

 verdure ; tho' they were so deplorably burnt. 



Planted 12 stock-gilliflowers from M r - Etty. Eat a very 

 curious Cantaleupe : it weigh'd two pounds, & an half, & 

 was very dry, & thick in flesh. 



Aug: 1 6. Cut the last Cantaleupe. Many were very 

 delicate, cracking both at Eye, & stem. 



21. Planted three rows of Polyanths on the bank next 

 the Alcove : planted two plots of backward Savoys. 



Septem r - 8. The wasps (which are without number this 

 dry hot summer) attack the grapes in a grievous manner. 

 Hung-up 1 6 bottles with treacle, & beer, which make great 

 havock among them. Bagged about fifty of the best 

 bunches in Crape-bags. Some of the forwardest bunches 

 are very eatable, tho' not curiously ripe. M r - Snooke's 

 grapes were eat naked to the stones a fortnight ago, when 

 they were quite green. 



There are about 3 brace of second-crop Succades, which 

 will come in good time if the weather proves good. 



Frequent showers since the 4 th of Aug : now a promise 

 of dry weather. The fields abound with grass as if there 

 had been no drought this summer. 



Septem r - 18. Delicate autumn weather for a fortnight. 

 Began eating the grapes, which are good, but not curiously 

 ripened yet. 



By means of bottles & bird lime I have prevented in- 

 numerable swarms of wasps from doing the grapes any 

 considerable damage. They are reduced now to a very 



