4 io NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



17. Turned-out the Cucumber-plants into the Hills 

 of the bearing-bed ; they are fine plants, but full tall. The 

 bed is hot & requires care. The plants for fruiting in the 

 seedling-bed have good side shoots, & shew the rudiments 

 of fruit. 



Made a Celeri-bed with an Hand-glass. 



18. Sowed Cantaleupe-seeds. 



23. Tunned the raisin-wine which filled the half hogsh : 

 there was about one gallon over. The wine, after drawn 

 from y e raisins, stood two days in a tub to settle, by which 

 means a large quantity of grout was kept back. 



Put to the wine ten bottles & one pint of elder syrop. 



Mem: the syrop by being made with only one pound 

 of sugar to a bottle of juice, fermented, & broke one 

 bottle, & blowed-out some corks. Put one p^ of sugar 

 to the wine to make amends for the bottle of syrop which 

 was lost. The wine is very sweet now. 



March 25. Brewed an half Hogsh : of strong-beer 

 with six bushels of Rich : Knight's malt, 1 and three pounds 

 of hops : well water. 



28. Cucumber-fruit blows out. 



Planted some strong cuttings of my sweet-water grape 

 against the fruit-wall, & against the wall of the House near 

 the fig-tree, & brew-house door. 



30. Many Cucumber -fruit blown. Lined-out the 

 seedling bed for the last time. 



31. Swallow appears. 



April 2. Put three Gallons of wine, half of which was 

 of the strongest sort, into y e vinegar-barrel. 



3. Rain, gentle & warm constantly for four whole 

 days to this time. Grass grows wonderfully. 



Earth'd-out y e seedling-cucum r - bed : fruit swells. 



April 4. Motacilla trochilus Lin : Regulus non cristatus 

 Raii ; & Parus ater Lin : & Raii, Angl : colemouse, sing. 



6. Saw more than twenty swallows & bank-martins 

 at M rs - Cole's at Liss over the Canals. 



10. The nightingale, motacilla luscinia, sings. 



1 This was James Knight's brother. [R. B. S.] 



