July 26

Posted by sydney on Jul 26th, 2008
  • 1792: July 26, 1792 – This cool, shady summer is not good for mens fallows, which are heavy, & weedy. Lettuces have not loaved, or bleached well this summer.
  • 1791: July 26, 1791 – Mrs Henry White, & Lucy came from Fyfield.
  • 1789: July 26, 1789 – By observing two glow-worms, which were brought from the field to the bank in the garden, it appeared to us, that those little creatures put-out their lamps between eleven & twelve, & shine no more for the rest of the night.
  • 1788: July 26, 1788 – The fields are now finely diversfyed with ripe corn, hay & harvest scenes, & hops. The whole country round is a charming land-scape,& puts me in mind of the following lovely lines in the first book of the Cyder of John Phillips.
    “Nor are the hills unamiable, whose tops/
    To heaven aspire, affording prospect sweet/
    To human ken; nor at their feet the vales/
    Descending gently, where the lowing herd/
    Chews verdurous pasture; nor the yellow fields/
    Gaily interchang’d, with rich variety/
    Pleasing; as when an Emerald green enchas’d/
    In flamy gold, from the bright mass acquires/
    A nobler hue, more delicate to sight.”
  • 1787: July 26, 1787 – The farmers talk much that wheat is blighted. Kidney-beans do not thrive.
  • 1785: July 26, 1785 – By frequent picking we have much reduced the Cocci on the vines.  Vast storm of thunder, & rain at Thursley, which damaged the crops.  Thursley is in Surrey, to the N.E. of us.
  • 1783: July 26, 1783 – Some wheat reaped at Faringdon.  Boys bring two more wasps nests.
  • 1781: July 26, 1781 – The blackbirds & thrushes, that have devoured all the wild cherries in the meadow, now begin to plunder the garden.
  • 1780: July 26, 1780 – Vast fog at sea, over the Sussex-downs.
  • 1776: July 26, 1776 – Cut the grass in the little meadow.  Hay makes well.  Hops fill their poles, & throw-out lateral shoots.
  • 1774: July 26, 1774 – Finished my meadow-hay in good order: St foin spoiled.
  • 1772: July 26, 1772 – Fine shower in the night.  Distant thunder.  Frogs migrate in myriads from the ponds.
  • 1771: July 26, 1771 – Turneps fail in many places, & are sown over again.
  • 1770: July 26, 1770 – Turneps begin to be hoed.  Red-breast’s note begins to be distinguishable, other birds being more silent.
  • 1768: July 26, 1768 – Threat’ning clouds at a distance, but most delicate ripening weather.

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