July 24
Posted by sydney on Jul 24th, 2008
- 1792: July 24, 1792 – Preserved some cherries. My meadow-hay was carried, in decent order. As we were coming from Newton this evening, on this side of the Money-dells, a cock Fern-owl came round us, & showed himself in a very amusing manner, whistling, or piping as he flew. Whenever he settled on the turf, as was often the case, Mr Churton went, & sprung him, & brought him round again. He did not clash his wings over his back, so as to make them snap. At the top of the Bostal we found a bat hawking for moths. Fern-owls & bats are rivals in their food, commanding each great powers of wing, & contending who shall catch the phalaenae of the evening.
- 1791: July 24, 1791 – The foreign Arum in the vicarage court, called by my Grandmother Dragons, & by Linnaeus Arum Dracunculus, has lately blown. It is an Italian plant, & yet has subsisted there thro’ all the severe frosts of 80 or 90 years; & has escaped all the diggings, & alterations that have befallen the borders of that garden. It thrives best under a N. wall, but how it is propagated does not appear. The spatha, & spadix are very long.
- 1790: July 24, 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.
- 1786: July 24, 1786 – Mr Richardson’s garden abounds with all sorts of crops, & with many sorts of fruits. His sandy soil produces an abundance of every thing; & does not burn in droughts like the clays, which are now bound-up so as to injure the growth of all garden matters. The watered meadows at Bramshot flourish & ook green, the uplands grass is much scorched. Mr R. has a pretty good show of Nectarines.
- 1784: July 24, 1784 – Planted bore-cole, &c. Yellow horizon. Bror Henry left us.
- 1782: July 24, 1782 – Whortle-berries ripen. Bought an aged brown Galloway of Mr Bradley of Alton.
- 1780: July 24, 1780 – Tortoise eats endive & poppies.
- 1775: July 24, 1775 – Hops throw out good side shoots & blow. Some few hills have perfect hops. A sea-lark shot at Newton-pond
- 1774: July 24, 1774 – Young swallows & martins begin to congregate on roofs. These are the first flight.
- 1773: July 24, 1773 – Wheat at Farnham £17-12-6 pr load. Several fields of cone, or bearded wheat growing this year round the village: the bloom of this wheat is of a brimstone colour. The bloom of some beardless wheat is purple: qu: what sort? The bloom of wheat in general is whitish.
- 1770: July 24, 1770 – Swallows begin to feed yir young ones flying.
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