September 14
Posted by sydney on Sep 14th, 2008
- 1792: September 14, 1792 – From London three gallons of French brandy, & two gallons of Jamaica rum.
- 1791: September 14, 1791 – Hop-picking goes on without the least interruption. Stone-curlews cry late in the evenings. The congregating flocks of hirundines on the church & tower are very beautiful, & amusing! When they fly-off altogether from the Roof, on any alarm, they quite swarm in the air. But they soon settle in heaps, & preening their feathers, & lifting up their wings to admit the sun, seem highly to enjoy the warm situation. Thus they spend the heat of the day, preparing for their emigration, &, as it were consulting when & where they are to go. The flight about the church seems to consist chiefly of house-martins, about 400 in number: but there are other places of rendezvous about the village frequented at the same time. The swallows seem to delight more in holding their assemblies on trees.
“When Autumn scatters his departing gleams,/Warn’d of appraching winter gathered play/The swallow people; & toss’d wide around/O’er the calm sky in convulsion swift,/The feather’d eddy floats: rejoicing once/Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire,/In clusters clung beneath the mouldring bank,/And where, unpierced by frost, the cavern sweats./Or rather to warmer climes convey’d,/With other kindred birds of season, there/They twitter chearful, till the vernal months/Invite them welcome back:– for thronging now/Innumberable wings are in commotion all.” - 1790: September 14, 1790 – Onions rot. Barley round the village very fine.
- 1788: September 14, 1788 – The gale snapped-off a large bough from my Cadillac pear-tree, which is heavily laden with fruit.
- 1785: September 14, 1785 – Turned the horses into the great meadow: there is a vast after grass, more than when the meadow was mowed in the summer.
- 1784: September 14, 1784 – The heats are so great, & the night so sultry, that we spoil joints of meat, in spite all the care that can be taken.
- 1783: September 14, 1783 – Mr Yalden’s tank is full. Brought down by Brother Thomas White from South Lambeth & planted in my borders: Dog toothed violets. Persian Iris. Quercus cerris. Double ulmaria. Double filipendula. Callis. White fox-glove. Iron fox-glove. Double wall-flower. Double scarlet lychinis.
- 1781: September 14, 1781 – Timothy the tortoise dull & torpid.
- 1777: September 14, 1777 – Black cluster-grapes begin to turn colur. A trenendous & awful earthquake at Manchester, & the district round. The earthquake happened a little before eleven o’ the clock in the forenoon, when many of the inhabitants were gathered in their respective places of worship.
- 1776: September 14, 1776 – Swallows cluster, & hang about in a particular manner at this season of the year. Honey-bees swarm by thousands, & devour the peaches, & nectarines.
- 1775: September 14, 1775 – Little barley housed towards Winton & Andover. Many crops not ripe.
- 1774: September 14, 1774 – Ring-ouzels feed on our haws, & yew-berries in the autumn, & ivy-berries in the spring.
- 1773: September 14, 1773 – Young swallows come out. Barley & oats housed. Some wheat out still.
- 1772: September 14, 1772 – Oats rot as they lie: a very poor scanty crop. Little barley cut, but dead ripe.
- 1771: September 14, 1771 – Great rain in the night. Spring sown wheat still standing. Regulus non cristatus minimus chirps.
- 1770: September 14, 1770 – Several fields of wheat unhoused.
- 1769: September 14, 1769 – Papilio Machaon is found here in May.
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