August 13

Posted by sydney on Aug 13th, 2008
  • 1792: August 13, 1792 – Goose-berries wither on the trees.
  • 1791: August 13, 1791 – Farmer Tull makes a wheat-rick at Wick-hill.
  • 1787: August 13, 1787 – Mr & Mrs Richardson & son came.
  • 1785: August 13, 1785 – My Nephew Edmd White’s tank at Newton runs over.  On the first of August, about half an hour after three in the afternoon the people of Selborne were surpried by a shower of Aphides which fell in these parts.  I was not at home; but those who were walking the streets at that juncture found themselves covered with these insects, which settled also on the trees, & gardens, & blackened all the vegetables where they alighted.  My annuals were covered with them; & some onions were quite coated over with them when I returned on Aug. 6th.  These armies, no doubt, were then an a state of emigration, & shifting their quarters; & might come, as far as we know, from the great hop-plantations of Kent or Sussex, the wind being that day at E.  They were observed at the same time at Farnham, & all along the vale to Alton.  Of the conveyance of Insects from place to place, see Derhams’s Physico-Theology. p. 367.
  • 1783: August 13, 1783 – Farmer Spencer of Grange finished wheat-harvest. Mr Pink of Faringdon finished Do.  Mr Yalden finished wheat-harvest.  Fermer Vridger of Black-more finished harvest of all sorts.
  • 1782: August 13, 1782 – Bro. Tho. White & daughter came.
  • 1781: August 13, 1781 – The pond on Selborne down has still some good water in it; Newton pond is all mud.  Many annuals are shrivelled-up for want of moisture.  The drought is very great.  Hops are injured for want of rain.
  • 1780: August 13, 1780 – Ponds are very low.
  • 1778: August 13, 1778 – There is this year the greatest crop of wheat in the North-field that ever was remembered.
  • 1773: August 13, 1773 – Great thunder, & lightening.
  • 1772: August 13, 1772 – Some few wasps begin to appear.
  • 1770: August 13, 1770 – Swifts to be partly gone.  Martins congregate.
  • 1768: August 13, 1768 – Sweet harvest weather.  Helleborus viridis begins to wither.  Brisk gale of wind.

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