July 27
Posted by sydney on Jul 27th, 2008
- 1790: July 27, 1790 – Honey-dews, which make the planters in pain for their hops. Hops are infested with aphides; look badly.
- 1789: July 27, 1789 – Farmer Spence & Farmer Knight are beginning to lime their respective farms at Grange & Norton.
- 1788: July 27, 1788 – We have had a few chilly mornings & evenings, which have sent off the swifts. I have remarked before, many times, how early they are in their retreat. Surely they must be influenced by the failure of some particular insect, which ceases to fly thus early, being checked by the first cool autumnal sensations; since their congeners will not depart yet thses eight or nine weeks.
- 1787: July 27, 1787 – Rooks in vast flocks return to the deep woods at half past 8 o’clock in the evening.
- 1786: July 27, 1786 – Saw a nightingale. Stifling dust.
- 1783: July 27, 1783 – My china-holly-hocks, after standing a year or two, lose all their fine variegated appearance, & turn to good common sorts, being double, & deeply coloured.
- 1782: July 27, 1782 – Vast rain. Swllows-nests with their young washed down the chimney.
- 1780: July 27, 1780 – Tortoise eats gooseberries.
- 1779: July 27, 1779 – Planted out in trenches four rows of celeri.
- 1778: July 27, 1778 – Few turnips are yet sown: they were prevented first by the dry weather, & then by the rain.
- 1774: July 27, 1774 – Turned out the worst of my St foin for thatch for my rick.
- 1773: July 27, 1773 – Some wheat seems to be blighted.
- 1772: July 27, 1772 – Small shower at Selbrone. Young swallows abound.
- 1771: July 27, 1771 – Cucumbers begin to bear again.
- 1769: July 27, 1769 – Some grapes are got pretty large. Finished cutting the small hedges.
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