July 29, 1790

Posted by sydney on Jul 29th, 1790

Some mushrooms, & funguses appear on the down.  Mrs J. White made Rasp, & strawberry jam, & red curran jelly, & preserved some cherries.

July 28, 1790

Posted by sydney on Jul 28th, 1790

Children gather strawberries every morning from the hanger where the tall beeches were felled in winter 1788.

July 27, 1790

Posted by sydney on Jul 27th, 1790

Honey-dews, which make the planters in pain for their hops.  Hops are infested with aphides; look badly.

July 25, 1790

Posted by sydney on Jul 25th, 1790

Lime trees are fragrant: the golden tassels are beautiful. Dr Chandler tells us that in the south of France, an infusion of the blossoms of the lime-tree, tilia, is in much esteem as a remedy for coughs, hoarseness, fevers, &c., & that at Nismes he saw an avenue of limes that was quite ravaged & torn to pieces by people greedily gathering the bloom, which they dryed & kept for their purposes. Upon the strength of this information we made some tea of lime-blossoms, & found it a very soft, well-flavoured, pleasant, saccharine julep, in taste much resembling the juice of liquorice.

July 24, 1790

Posted by sydney on Jul 24th, 1790

Trenched four rows of celeri, good streight plants.  Lime trees in full bloom. Large honey-dews on my great oak, that attract the bees, which swarm upon it.  Some wheat is much lodged by the wind & rain.  There is reason to fear from the coldness & wetness of the season that the crop will not be good.  Windy, wet, cold solstices are never favourable to wheat, because they interrupt the bloom, & shake it off before it has perfomred it’s function.

July 22, 1790

Posted by sydney on Jul 22nd, 1790

A man brought me a cuckoo, found in the nest of a water-wagtail among the rocks of the hollow lane leading to Rood.  This bird was almost fledge.

July 18, 1790

Posted by sydney on Jul 18th, 1790

Mrs Clement & daughters came.

July 17, 1790

Posted by sydney on Jul 17th, 1790

Mr Churton came.  A nightingale continues to sing; but his notes are short and interrupted, & attended with a chur. A fly-catcher has a nest in my vines.  Young swallows settle on the grass-plots to catch insects.

July 15, 1790

Posted by sydney on Jul 15th, 1790

Continual gales all thro’ this month, which interrupt the cutting my tall hedges.

July 14, 1790

Posted by sydney on Jul 14th, 1790

Tempest, & much thunder to the N.W.  Neither cucumbers, nor kidney beans, nor annuals thrive on account of the cold blowing season. Timothy the tortoise is very dull, & spends most of his time under the shade of the vast, expanded leaves of the monk’s rhubarb.

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