If the bough of a vine be cut late in the spring just before the shoots push out, it will bleed miserably; but after the leaf is out any part may be taken off without the least inconvenience. So oaks may be barked while the leaf is budding; but as soon as they are expanded the bark will no longer part from the wood; because the sap, that lubricates the bark & makes it part, is evaporated off thro’ the leaves.
Thunder & rain in the night. Fat sheep are shorn. Young misslethrushes.
Sultry. Thunder at a distance. Mole-cricket churs. Not one chaffer appears yet.
Flesh-flies buz about the room. Melon-fruit begins to blow.
Musca meridiana. This fly smells strongly of musk. White owls have young.
The ground dryed-up in a very extraordinary manner. Much barley lying in the dust without vegetating. Apple-trees well blown. Grass very short.
Green geese are driven along the streets in great droves.
Green goose-berries. Lapwing’s eggs at the poulterers.
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