344 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



4. Vast rains still. The wet has lasted five weeks 

 yesterday. 



5. Eat an extraordinary fine Cantaleupe notwithstand- 

 ing the rains. 



9 : 10. Two fine days : during which my Neighbours 

 got-in their Hay rather better than was expected. 



ii. Sowed a crop of spinage. Dry weather for three 

 days ; but distant thunder. 



Aug : 15. Sowed a plot of turneps. 



Dry weather for some days. 



1 6. Showers again. Cut some fine Cantaleupes. 



People are just entering on wheat-harvest. 



22 : 23. Showery weather, & very little wheat housed : 

 it begins to grow under the hedges. 



Finished cutting my Cantaleupes, & Succades. 



The grapes are very backward & small, having seen 

 nothing but black showery weather for these eight weeks. 



25. M r - Mulso's family left me. 



26. Now a long rain after two fine days. The wheat 

 grows pretty much. 



Septem r - 4. Now frequent showers after some fine days. 

 There is a good deal of wheat still abroad. 



7. Now wet weather after some fine days. Much 

 wheat abroad still. 



10. Tyed up endive. Showery, bad weather. 



13. Many days black wet weather. 



The Grapes begin to change Colour. 



Planted a row of stocks on the fruit-wall border, & under 

 the dining-room window. 



18. Black wet weather. 



The rainy season continued 12 weeks; since which 

 there has been some delicate weather in the latter end of 

 Septem r & Octob r - that has made the grapes better than 

 could be expected. 



Ocr- 18. Planted an hundred of Cabbages to stand the 

 winter. 



24. Dug up the potatoes which are large & fine. 

 Trimm'd & tack'd the fruit-wall trees : the wet summer 



