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The titlark sings still. 



The Nect : trees put-out some young shoots, & look 

 better ; the peach-trees shrivel-up, & get worse, & worse. 



29 : 30. Vast rains, & wind. 



Aug. i. The first crop of Succades were all cut : they 

 are not good for want of sun, & dry weather. 



Parus ater, the cole-mouse, sings. 



10. Hot, dry weather for some time. 



Sejf- ii. Much wheat abroad, & some standing. 



Second crop of Succades good. Cantaleupes good, but 

 small. 



Regulus non cristatus chirps. 1 



Peaches begin to ripen. 



Peach, & Nect: trees a little recovered from y ir dis- 

 tempered condition. 



17. Discovered the yellow centory, Centaurium luteum 

 perfoliatum of Ray, in plenty up the sides of the steep cart- 

 way in the King's field beyond Tull's. This is a very vague 

 plant for ascertaining according to the sexual system. 



Linn : makes it a gentian, & places it among the 

 pentandrias : but it has commonly seven stamina. Hodson 

 makes a new Genus of it (Blackstonia) unknown to Linn : 

 placing it as an 8 andria digynia. It is best known by it's 

 boat-like, very perfoliated leaves. 



Moist black weather, which much retards harvest. 



19. Sultry weather, with a very high barometer. 



Peaches are good, & Nectarines delicate, & large. 

 Black grapes begin to turn colour. 



Wheat in general is housed, & housing. 



The black-cap, red-start, & white throat still appear. 



Cantaleupes small with me, but good. 



Succades good. 



24. Tyed-up many large endives. 



Sweet Autumnal weather. 



Ear-wigs, when small, fly about with ease : but, when 

 full-grown do not attempt to rise ; as if their wings were 



1 The Chiff-chaff (Phylloscopus minor) is the only one of the Willow Warblers 

 which utters a lively note in autumn as well as in spring. [R. B. S. ] 



