August 2

Posted by sydney on Aug 2nd, 2008
  • 1791: August 2, 1791 – Sowed white turnip radishes.  Planted-out savoys, & other winter cabbages.
  • 1789: August 2, 1789 – The goose-berries are bent to the ground with loads of fruit.
  • 1788: August 2, 1788 – Many bats breed under the tiles of my house.  Five gallons, & one pint of brandy from London.
  • 1784: August 2, 1784 – Wall-cherries, may dukes, lasted ’till this time, & were very fine.
  • 1783: August 2, 1783 – Burning sun.  Workmen complain of the heat.
  • 1780: August 2, 1780 – Papilio Machaon alis caudatis, concoloribus, flavis, limbo fusco, lunulis flavis, angulo ani fulvo, appears in my garden, being the first specimen of this species that I ever saw in this district.  In Essex & Sussex they are more common.  A person brought me a young snipe from the forest.
  • 1777: August 2, 1777 – After ewes & lambs are shorn there is great confusion & bleating, neither the dams nor the young being able to distinguish one another as before.  This embarrassment seems not so much to arise from the loss of fleece, which may occasion an alteration in their appearance, as from the defect of that notus odor, discriminating each individual personally: which also is confounded by the strong scent of the pitch & tar wherewith they are newly marked; for the brute creation recognize each other more from the smell that the sight; & in matters of Identity & Diversity appeal much more to their noses than to their eyes.
  • 1775: August 2, 1775 – Wheat harvest is general all about the downs.  When I came just beyond Findon I found wheatear traps which had been open’d about a week.  The shepherds usually begin catching about the last week in July.
  • 1774: August 2, 1774 – Sun, sweet day.  A chilly autumnal feel in the mornings and evenings.
  • 1773: August 2, 1773 – Apis manicata.  This bee is never observed by me ’til the Stachys germanica blows, on which it feeds all day: tho’ doubtless it had other plants to feed on before I introduced that Stachys.
  • 1772: August 2, 1772 – Ground well moistened.  The frogs from James Kinght’s ponds travel in troops to the top of the Hanger.
  • 1769: August 2, 1769 – Male-ants flie away & leave yir nests.

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