September 17
Posted by sydney on Sep 17th, 2008
- 1792: September 17, 1792 – Gathered-in the white pippins, about a bushel; many were blown down last week. Oats housed.
- 1790: September 17, 1790 – Martins congregate on the weather-cock, & vane of the may-pole. The boys brought me their first wasps nest from Kimber’s; it was near as big as a gallon. When there is no fruit, as is remarkably the case this year, wasps eat flies, & suck the honey from flowers, from ivy blossoms, & umbellated plants: they carry-off also flesh from butcher’s shambles.
- 1789: September 17, 1789 – No mushrooms on the down.
- 1786: September 17, 1786 – Much damage has been done at sea & land by the late strong winds; in particular about London. The vines were very forward in June: but now the grapes are quite backward, having made no progress in ripening for some weeks, on account of the blowing, black, wet weather. The bunches are of a good size, & the grapes large, & much want hot sunshine to bring them to perfection. My potted balsoms, which stand within, are still in beauty, tho’ they have been blowing now more than three months. One in particular is more showy now than ever, & has such double flower that they produce no seed. The blossoms are as large as a crown piece.
- 1784: September 17, 1784 – Nep. Ben White left me: he stayed a few days.
- 1783: September 17, 1783 – Planted from Mr Etty’s garden a root of the Arum dracunculus, or Dragons; a species rarely to be seen; but has been in the vicarage-garden ever since the time of my Grandfather, who dyed in spring 1727/8.
- 1780: September 17, 1780 – When we call loudly thro’ the speaking-trumpet to Timothy, he does not seem to regard the noise.
- 1777: September 17, 1777 – The sky this evening, being what they call a mackerel sky, was most beautiful, & much admired in many parts of the country. * As the beautiful mackerel sky was remarked & admired at Ringmer, near Lewes, London, & Selborne at the same time; it is a plain proof that those fleecy clouds were very high in ye atmosphere. These places lie in a triangle whose shortest base is more than 50 miles. Italian skies! Full moon. The creeping fogs in the pastures are very picturesque & amusing & represent arms of the sea, rivers, & lakes.
- 1769: September 17, 1769 – Gryllus gryllotalpa works. Rooks frequent their nest-trees & repair their nests.
- 1768: September 17, 1768 – Wheat still abroad. The fields are drencehd with rains, and almost all the spring corn is abroad. Sheep die.
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