July 19
Posted by sydney on Jul 19th, 2008
- 1792: July 19, 1792 – My meadow is begun to be mowed.
- 1791: July 19, 1791 – Alton Rye cut & bound at Clapham. Wheat looks well, & turns colour. Hay making at Farnham: pease are hacking near the town; hops distempered.
- 1789: July 19, 1789 – When old beech-trees are cleared away, the naked ground in a year or two becomes covered with straw-berry plants, the seed of which must have lain in the ground for an age at lest. One of the slidders or trenches down the middle of the hanger, close covered over with lofty beeches near a century old, is still called strawberry slidder, though no strawberries have grown there in the memory of man. That sort of fruit, no doubt, did once abound there, & will again when the obstruction is removed.
- 1788: July 19, 1788 – Poultry begin to moult.
- 1786: July 19, 1786 – Oaks put-out their midsummer shoots, some of which are red, & some yellow; & those oaks that were stripped by caterpillars begin to be cloathed with verdure. Many beeches are loaded with mast, so that their boughs become very pendulous, & look brown, I see no acorns. Selborne down is very rusty: the pond still is one part in three in water.
- 1783: July 19, 1783 – Men talk that some fields of wheat are blighted: in general the crop looks well. Barley looks finely, & oats & pease are very well: Hops grow worse, & worse.
- 1781: July 19, 1781 – House-martins abound at Lipock.
- 1780: July 19, 1780 – Puff-balls appear in my grass-plot.
- 1776: July 19, 1776 – Sambucus ebulus. Dwarf elder blows. Fungi begin to appear.
- 1775: July 19, 1775 – Five wasps nests destroyed this evening: two before.
- 1774: July 19, 1774 – Put part of my meadow-hay in large cock.
- 1772: July 19, 1772 – Some thunder & hail. Smart showers.
- 1771: July 19, 1771 – Tabanus bovinus. Trenched out celeri. Wind tears the hedges & flowers.
- 1768: July 19, 1768 – Young swallows are able to take flies for themselves.
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