September 25
Posted by sydney on Sep 25th, 2008
- 1792: September 26, 1792 – Men begin to bag hops. Celeri comes in. Vine-leaves turn purple.
- 1791: September 25, 1791 – Several wells in the village are dry: my well is very low; Burbey’s Turner’s, Dan Loe’s hold out well.
- 1790: September 25, 1790 – A vast flock of lapwings, which has forsaken the moors & bogs, now frequents the uplands. Some ring-ouzels were seen round Nore-hill.
- 1789: September 25, 1789 – Men bag their hops; & house seed-clover. A fern-owl plays round the Plestor. As we were walking this day, Sept. 22nd: being the King’s coronation, on Nore-hill at one o’ the clock in the afternoon, we heard great guns on each side of us, viz. from the S. & from the N.E., which undoubtedly were the cannons of Portsmouth & Windsor: the former of which is at least 26 miles distant, & the latter 30. If the guns heard from the N.E. were not from Windsor, they must be those of the Tower of London.
- 1786: September 25, 1786 – Niece Betsey came from Fyfield.
- 1785: September 25, 1785 – Vast rain. Violent current in the street.
- 1784: September 25, 1784 – Sister Henry White, & her daughter came.
- 1783: September 25, 1783 – My wall-nut tree near the stable, which is usually barren, produces this year 5, or 600 nuts: the sort is very fine. The vast tree at the bottom of the garden bears every year, but the nuts are bad. Charles White, & Harry Woods came from Fyfield.
- 1782: September 25, 1782 – Sad hop, & harvest weather.
- 1781: September 25, 1781 – Gathered swan’s egg pears, a large crop. Surprising Auroras, very red in the W!!! The young swarms of bees this summer are light; the old stocks are heavy.
- 1780: September 25, 1780 – When people walk in a deep white fog by night with a lanthorn, if they will turn their backs to the light they will see their shades impressed on the fog in rude, gigantic proportions. This phenomenon seems not to have been attended to; but implies the great density of the meteor that juncture.
- 1779: September 25, 1779 – Full moon. No mushrooms have appeared all this month. I find that the best crop is usually in Aug. & if they are not taken then, the season catchup is lost. Many other fungi.
- 1776: September 25, 1776 – Fine young clover & fine turneps about the country. * The quantities of haws, & sloes this year are prodigious. Those hives of bees that have been taken have proved deficient in wax, & honey. In shady wet summers bees can scarce procure a store sufficient to carry them thro’ the winter: if not fed they perish.
- 1775: September 25, 1775 – Gathered-in the swan’s eggs, & autumn burgamot-pears: a vast crop of the former.
- 1774: September 25, 1774 – Wood-lark sings.
- 1773: September 25, 1773 – Much barley abroad. Wet fit ever since the first of Sepr. Wall-fruit fine still.
- 1772: September 25, 1772 – Vast tempest in the night that b roke boughs from the trees, & blowed down much of the apples & pears. Gathered some apples.
- 1771: September 25, 1771 – Hedge-sparrow begins its winter note.
- 1770: September 25, 1770 – Barley grows in the swarth. Thunder, lightening, hail.
- 1768: September 25, 1768 – A few of these rare birds (rock-ouzels) appeared, just this time twelve months, in orchards about yew-trees. I have not been able yet to procure a cock.
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