August 19
Posted by sydney on Aug 19th, 2008
- 1792: – My shrub, Rhus cotinus, known to the nursery-men by the title of Cocygria, makes this summer a peculiar shew, being covered all over with it’s “bracteae paniculae filiformes,” which give it a feathery plume-like appearance, very amusing to those that have not seen it before. On the extremities of these panicles appear about midsumer a minute white bloom which with us brings no seeds to perfection. Towards the end of August the panicles turn red & decay.
- 1791: August 19, 1791 – The young men left us, & went to Funtington. A second crop of beans, long pods, come in. Sweet day, golden eve, red horizon. Some what of an autumnal feel.
- 1790: – Mrs Barker & her daughters Mary & Elizabeth, & Mrs Chandler, & her infant daughter and nursemaid went all in a cart to see the great oak in the Holt, which is deemed by Mr Marsham of Stratton to be the biggest on this Island. Bro. Thos. & Dr Chandler rode on horse-back. They all dined under the shade of this tree. At 7 feet from the ground it measures in circumference 34 feet: has in old times lost several boughs, & is tending towards decay. Mr Marsham computes that at 14 feet length this oak contains 1000 feet of timber.
- 1789: August 19, 1789 – Timothy Turner’s brew-house on fire: but much help coming in & pulling off the thatch, the fire was extinguished, without any farther damage than the loss of the roofing. The flames burst thro’ the thatch in many places. We are this day annoyed in the brown parlor by multitudes of flying ants, which come forth, as usual, from under the stairs.
- 1788: August 19, 1788 – Farmer Lasham has much wheat out, which was not ripe when other people cut, & housed.
- 1787: August 19, 1787 – Showers about: Rain-bows. Vivid Aurora.
- 1786: August 19, 1786 – Mushrooms come in Mr White’s avenue at Newton.
- 1785: August 19, 1785 – Sam & Charles leave us. Gleaners get much wheat.
- 1781: August 19, 1781 – Mr Pink’s turnips are infested with black caterpillars; he turned 80 ducks into the field, hoping they would have destroyed them; but they did not seem much to relish this sort of food. I have known whole broods of ducks destroyed by their eating too freely of hairy caterpillars.
- 1775: August 19, 1775 – Wheat-harvest in general seems to be finished, except where there is turnep wheat. Fifteen wasps nests have been destroyed round the village; yet those plunderers devour the plum, & eat holes in the peaches & nectarines before they are ripe; & will soon attack the grapes. Grapes begin to turn colour: they are forward this year. Harvest-weather was much finer at Ringmer than Selborne. Some wheat a little grown at Newton.
- 1773: August 19, 1773 – Terrible storm all night, which made sad havock among the hops, & broke off boughs from the trees.
- 1772: August 19, 1772 – All the pastures are burnt up, & scarce any butter made. Wheat in fine order, & heavy.
- 1771: August 19, 1771 – Swifts abound. Swallows & martins bring out their second broods which are perchers. Thunder: wind.
- 1770: August 19, 1770 – Ponds begin to fail. Hops are perfectly free from lice.
- 1769: August 20, 1769 – Bulls begin to make their shrill autumnal note.
- 1768: August 19, 1768 – White wheat begins to grow. Plums ripe.
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