July 22

Posted by sydney on Jul 22nd, 2008
  • 1792: July 22, 1792 – Took the black-bird’s nest the fourth time: it contained squab young.
  • 1791: July 22, 1791 – Children bring wood-strawberries in great plenty.  Made straw-berry jam.  Gathered currans, & rasps for jam: my rasps are fair & fine.  The farmers at Selborne had not half a crop of hay.  Hops thrive at this place.  Merise, wild cherries, over at the vicarage, ripen.
  • 1790: July 22, 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.
  • 1787: July 22, 1787 – Mushrooms appear on the short Lythe.
  • 1785: July 22, 1785 – Made black curran-jelly, & rasp. jam.
  • 1784: July 22, 1784 – The wind broke-off a great bough from Molly White’s horse-chestnut tree.
  • 1781: July 22, 1781 – All the first meadow-hay about us was spoiled: all the latter was ricked in delicate order. Late in the evening the swifts course round with their young high in the air. They are some times so numerous that one might suspect they are joined by parties from other villages. The fly-catchers have quite forsaken my house & garden: they never breed twice.
  • 1778: July 22, 1778 – Sowed first endive.  Planted-out Savoys, choux de Milan, cabbages, &c.  The ground works well, & falls very fine.  Sowed parsley, which has failed before.  Planted out more annuals.
  • 1776: July 22, 1776 – Bees swarm the swarm of a swarm, which swarmed itself at the beginning of June.  A neighbour has had nine swarms from four stalls: two apiece from three of them, & three from one.
  • 1775: July 22, 1775 – The swifts are so fledge before they quit the nest that they are not to be distinguished from their dams on the wing; yet from the encrease of their numbers, & from their unusual manner of clinging to walls & towers one may perceive that several are now out.  And no wonder that they should begin to bestir themselves, since they will probably withdraw in a fortnight.
  • 1774: July 22, 1774 – Hay well made at last.  Swifts pursue & drive away an hawk: but do not dart down & strike him with that fury that swallows express on the same occasion.  In these attacks they make some noise with their mouths, squeaking a little.
  • 1773: July 22, 1773 – Wheat is now at 17s pds. per load, & very little left in the kingdom.
  • 1772: July 22, 1772 – Pease begin to be hacked.

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  1. Via Negativa Says:
    July 22nd, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    […] Journals of Gilbert White Bees swarm the swarm of a swarm, which swarmed itself at the beginning of June. — […]

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