August 11, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 11th, 1774
One of my vines looks pale & sickly. Ivy budds for bloom: it blows in Octr & Novr. and the fruit ripens in April.
August 9, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 9th, 1774
Young martins abound. Wheat-harvest begins with us. The swifts appear again.
August 7, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 7th, 1774
Much wheat blighted. Swifts have not appear’d for these two evenings.
August 6, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 6th, 1774
The trufle-hunter took one pound of trufles at Fyfield. Swifts disappeared at Fyfield on this day. A colony of swifts builds in the tower of London. Swifts in general seemed to withdraw from us on this day. Annuals are stunted, & not likely to blow well.
August 4, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 4th, 1774
Swifts began to withdraw about this time at Blackburn in Lancashire.
August 2, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 2nd, 1774
Sun, sweet day. A chilly autumnal feel in the mornings and evenings.
August 1, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 1st, 1774
Wheat cutting near Whorwel: much lodged. Swifts flie up to the tower, & cling against the walls: qu: are not those young ones that do so?
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