September 12
Posted by sydney on Sep 12th, 2008
- 1792: September 12, 1792 – Began to light fires in the parlor. J.W. left us.
- 1789: September 12, 1789 – Some wheat is out. Trimming has a large field not cut. Gentiana Amarella, autumnal gentian, or fell-wort, buds for bloom on the hill. Sent 12 plants of Ophrys spiralis to Mr Curtis of Lambeth marsh.
- 1787: September 12, 1787 – Lapwings leave the low grounds, & come to the uplands in flocks. A pair of honey-buzzards, & a pair of wind-hovers appear to have young in the hanger. The honey-buzzard is a fine hawk, & skims about in a majestic manner.
- 1785: September 12, 1785 – Wasps much subdued.
- 1783: September 12, 1783 – Tyed-up endives: they are backward this year, & not well-grown. One sowing never came up. The barley about Salisbury lies in a sad wet condition.
- 1780: September 12, 1780 – Timothy still feeds a little. Ophrys spiralis, Ladies-traces, blows pentifully in the long lithe, & on the common near the beechen-grove.
- 1776: September 12, 1776 – The wasps, tho’ by no means numberous, plunder the hives, & kill the bees, which are weak & feeble, this wet autumn: “asper crabro imparibus se emiscuit armis.”
- 1775: September 12, 1775 – Put 50 fine bunches of grapes in crape bags to secure them from wasps.
- 1774: September 12, 1774 – Great hail at Winton. Wasps abound in woody, wild districts far from neighbourhoods: how are they supported there without orchards, or butcher’s shambles, or grocer’s shops? * Wasps nesting far from neighbourhoods feed on flowers, & catch flies & caterpillars to carry to their young. Wasps make their nests with the raspings of sound timber, hornets with what they gnaw from decayed. These particles of wood are neaded up with a mixture of saliva from their bodies, & moulded into combs.
- 1768: September 12, 1768 – Sheep die frequently on the common, tho’ so wholesome a spot. Ravens flock on the hanger.
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