February 27, 1791
Snow covers the ground. A large bough broken from the yew-tree, in the church yard, by the snow.
Snow covers the ground. A large bough broken from the yew-tree, in the church yard, by the snow.
Deep snow, which damaged & broke my plum-trees, & hedges. This is much the greatest snow that we have seen this year. Some of the deep lanes are hardly passable.
Mr Edmd White took down my Barometer, & cleaned tube, & frame. It had not been meddled with for just 18 years, when my Bror John also took it down.
The farmers are very much behind in their plowings for a spring crop thro’ the wetness of the season.
Chaffinches destroy the buds in the honey-suckles.
As there has been little frost, the antirrhinum cymb: flourishes, & blossoms thro’ the winter.
Sowed cucumber-seeds in pots plunged in the hot-bed: bed heats well.