September 19
Posted by sydney on Sep 19th, 2008
- 1792: September 19, 1792 – Rain. Hops become very brown, & damaged. The hop-pickers are wet through every day.
- 1790: September 19, 1790 – On this day Lord Stawell sent me a rare & curious water-fowl, taken alive a few days before by a boy at Basing, near Basingstoke, & sent to the Duke of Bolton at Hackwood park, where it was put into the bason before the house, in which it soon dyed. This bird proved to be the Procellaria Puffinus of Linnaeus, the Manks puffin, or Shear-water of Ray. Shear-waters breed in the Calf of Man, & as Ray supposes, in the Scilly Isles, & also in the Orkines: but quit our rocks & shores about the latter end of August; & from accounts lately given by navigators, are dispersed over the whole Atlantic. By what chance or accident this bird was impelled to visit Hants is a question that can not easily be answered.
- 1789: September 19, 1789 – No mushrooms in the pastures below Buarrant-hangers. Here & there a wasp. The furze-seed which Bro. Tho. sowed last may on the naked part of the hanger comes up well. Some raspberry-trees in the bushes on the common. Trees keep their verdure well.
- 1787: September 19, 1787 – Nep. Ben, & wife left us, & went to London.
- 1785: September 19, 1785 – No mushrooms: plenty in Rutland.
- 1783: September 19, 1783 – Ivy begins to blow on Nore-hill & is frequented by wasps. Pd for a wasps nest, full of young.
- 1782: September 19, 1782 – Barley mowing about the country.
- 1780: September 19, 1780 – Hornets settle on the mellow fruit among the honey-bees & carry them off.
- 1778: September 19, 1778 – A lime-avenue in Rotherfield-park has shed all it’s leaves. Many ponds dry a second time.
- 1777: September 19, 1777 – Ring-ousels on the downs on their autumnal visit. Lapwings about on the downs attended by starlings: few stone-curlews. Sweet Italian skies. The foliage of the beeches remarkably decayed & rusty.
- 1774: September 19, 1774 – A moor-buzzard with a white head was shot some time ago on Greatham-moor.
- 1771: September 19, 1771 – Lapwings congregate on the downs.
- 1770: September 19, 1770 – Stormy all night. Aequnoctial weather. Wheat begins to sow.
- 1768: September 19, 1768 – First blanched Celeri. Wheat still abroad: oats & barley much grown.
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