Nov. 3. |
Men sow wheat: but the land-springs break out in some of the Hartley malm-fields. [Upper Greensand rock.] |
Nov. 5. |
Gossamer abounds. Vast dew lies on the grass all day, even in the sun. |
Nov. 8. |
Planted 3 quarters of an hundred more of cabbages to stand the winter: dug-up potatoes; those in the garden large, & fine, those in the meadow small, & rotting. |
Nov. 10. |
On this day Brother Benjamin quitted South Lambeth, & came to reside at His House at Mareland. |
Nov. 12. |
Planted in the garden 2 codling-trees, 2 damson-trees, & 22 goose-berry trees, sent me by Bror T. W. |
Nov. 13. |
Mr Ed. White & man brought a good fine young white poplar from his out-let at Newton, & planted it at ye top of Parsons’s, slip behind the bench; where it will be ornamental. |
Nov. 15. |
Timothy comes out. |
Nov. 17. |
Baker’s hill is planted all over with horse-beans, which are grown four or five inches high. They were probably sown by jays; & spring up thro’ the grass, or moss. Many were planted there last year, but not in such abundance as now. |
Nov. 19. |
Water-cresses come in. |
Sent 3 bantam fowls to Miss Reb. White at Mare-land, a cock & two pullets. |
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Nov. 22. |
Timothy comes forth. |
Nov. 24. |
Saw a squirrel in Baker’s Hill: it was very tame. This was probably what Thomas called a pole-cat [See 28 Oct. supra.] |
Nov. 26. |
Timothy hides. |
Nov. 29. |
This dry weather enables men to bring in loads of turf, not much damaged: while scores of loads of peat lie rotting in the Forest. |
Dec. 1. |
Thomas started a hare, which lay in her form under a cabbage, in the midst of my garden. It has begun to eat the tops of my pinks in many places. The landsprings, which began to appear, are much abated. |
Dec. 2. |
This dry fit has proved of vast advantage to the kingdom, & by drying & draining the fallows, will occasion the growing of wheat on many hundred of acres of wet, & flooded land, that were deemed to be in a desperate state, & incapable of being seeded this season. |
Dec. 4. |
Timothy is gone under a tuft of long grass, but is not yet buried in the ground. |
Dec. 5 |
Timothy appears, & flies come-out. |
Dec. 7. |
Took down the urns, & shut up the alcove. |
Reverend Gilbert White, The Naturalist’s Journal, 1792