September 1
Posted by sydney on Sep 1st, 2008
- 1792: September 1, 1792 – Grass grows on the walks very fast. Garden beans at an end.
- 1788: September 1, 1788 – A sand-piper shot at Hawkley.
- 1787: September 1, 1787 – The shooters find many coveys, but not large ones. Not one wasp.
- 1785: September 1, 1785 – Dogs eat the goose-berries when they become ripe; & now they devour the plums as they fall; last year they tore the apricots off the trees.
- 1784: September 1, 1784 – Farmer Town began to pick his hops: the hops are many, but small. They were not smitten by the hail. Because they grew at S.E. end of the village. Hopping begins at Hartley. The two hop-gardens, belonging to Farmer Spencer & John Hale, that were so much injured, as it was supposed, by the hail-storm on June 5th shew now a prodigious crop, & larger & fairer hops than any in the parish. The owners seem now to be convinced that the hail, by beating off the tops of the binds, has encreased the side-shoots, & improved the crop. Query: should not the tops of hops be pinched-off when the binds are very gross, & strong? We find this practice to be of great service with melons, & cucumbers. The scars, & wounds on the binds, made by the great hailstones are still very visible.
- 1783: September 1, 1783 – Red sunshine. Sowed a bed of Coss-lettuce.
- 1781: September 1, 1781 – We have caught about 20 hornets with bird-lime.
- 1777: September 1, 1777 – Cold, white dew, sun, brisk air, clouds about, sun breaks out. Destroyed a small wasp’s-nest: the combs were few, but full of young.
- 1776: September 1, 1776 – The barley coming-up unequally is not yet ripe. Hops promise to be very small.
- 1775: September 1, 1775 – Barley begins to be injured. Many fields of barley, green & not mowed.
- 1773: September 1, 1773 – Orleans plums begin to ripen. Hops continue small & have not grown kindly since the storm.
- 1770: September 1, 1770 – Not one wasp appears notwithstanding the long dry season. Cuckows skim over the ponds at Oakhanger, & catch libellulae on the weeds, & as the flie in the air. I can give no credit to the motion that they are birds of prey. They have a weak bill & no talons.
- 1768: September 1, 1768 – Transplanted some plants of the Helleborus viridis from the Honey-lane near Norton to the shrubbery in the orchard. Smallest Regulus non cristatus chirps. Owls have young still in the nest.
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