4 i4 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



not then adequate to their weight. This is a mistake ; 

 there are two species. 



Melons over. 



18. Musca meridiana of Linn : & Scopoli appears. 



Octob r - 5. Great hail-storms, & cold weather. 



Martins appear still. 



Very few wasps. 



Missle-thrushes come to the Yew-trees. 



Endives are very fine. 



8. Celeri is blanched. 



Gathered my apple, & pear-crop, which consisted 

 literally of one Golden-pippin, & one Cadillac. 



Octob r ' 20. Being on a visit at the house of my good 

 friend M r - John Mulso Rector of Witney, I rode-out on 

 purpose to look after the base hore hound, the Stachys 

 Fuchsii of Ray, which, that Gent : says, grows near Witney 

 park : I found but one plant under the wall : but farther 

 on near the turnpike that leads to Burford, in an hedge 

 opposite to Minster Lovel, it grows most plentifully. 



It was still blowing, & abounded with seed ; a good 

 parcel of which I brought away with me to sow in the dry 

 banks round the village of Selborne. It is not known to 

 grow in any Country save that of Oxon, & Lincoln. 



29. Saw four or five swallows flying round & settling 

 on the County-hospital at Oxon. 



Nov r - 4. Bees & flies still continue to gather food from 

 y e blossoms of Ivy. 



5. Gathered the first grapes ; they are very sweet, & 

 delicate ; tho' the buches, & berries are smaller than usual. 

 There is not one fifth part of the usual crop. 



12. Continual wet, & high winds. People are much 

 hindred in their wheat-season. 



Noif- 12. Bro Benj n - saw a Marten flying in Fleet 

 street. 



1 6. Vast rains. 



1 8. The first considerable frost. 



23. Put the Hyacinths in rows in part of a Quarter 

 near the fruit wall. Many of the roots were decayed ; & 



