September 26
Posted by sydney on Sep 26th, 2008
- 1791: September 26, 1791 – My potatoes come in, and are good.
- 1789: September 26, 1789 – Multitudes of Hirundines. Sweet Mich. weather.
- 1787: September 26, 1787 – Many ravens on the hill, & a flight of starlings.
- 1786: September 26, 1786 – Saw a nest full of young swallows, nearly fledged, in their nest under Captain Dumaresq’gate way at Pilham-place. Saw the same day many martins over Selborne village. I have often seen young house-martins in their nests in the Mich. week; but never swallows before.
- 1784: September 26, 1784 – Mr Taylor took possession of Selborne vicarage.
- 1781: September 26, 1781 – Dug up potatoes: earthed up celeri. Gathered knobbed russetings, a large crop. Our building-sand from Wolmer-forest seems pure from dirt: but examined thro’ a microscope proves not to be sharp, & angular, but smooth as from collision. It is of a yellow colour. “The amazing number of swallows that at this time are flying in London, is a very uncommon appearance. They seem greatly affected by the severe cold weather we have experienced for some days past, since the wind has been northerly; they fly in at windows, & are so tamed or numbed, that boys beat them down, as they fly in the streets.” The Gazetteer
- 1780: September 26, 1780 – Moles live in the middle of the hanger.
- 1778: September 26, 1778 – Mrs Snooke has gathered-in all her apples, & pears: her fruit is finely flavoured in such hot years. Mrs Snooke’s black grapes begin to ripen. No wasps here. The distress in this place for want of water is very great: they have few wells in this deep loam; & the little pits & ponds are all dry; so that the neighbours all come for water to Mrs Snooke’s ponds.
- 1775: September 26, 1775 – Gathered in the golden-rennets. Apples are too large from the much wet.
- 1774: September 26, 1774 – Planted numbers of brown Dutch lettuces under the fruit-wall to stand the winter. *These proved very fine the spring following.
- 1772: September 26, 1772 – Apples & pears large & fine. Chilly air. Swallows and martins. The tempest on thursday night did considerable damage in London, & at Oxford, & in many parts of the kingdom.
- 1771: September 26, 1771 – Ring-ouzels, merula torquata, begin to apear on their autumnal migration.
- 1770: September 26, 1770 – Annuals are spoiled in the gardens.
- 1769: September 26, 1769 – Sweet day. The sheep about Lewes are all without Horns: & have black faces & legs. Sheep have horns & white faces again west of Bramber.
- 1768: September 26, 1768 – I saw a small Ichneumon-fly laying its eggs on, or in the aurelia of a papilio.
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