November 12

Posted by sydney on Nov 12th, 2008
  • 1792: November 12, 1792 – Planted in the garden 2 codling-trees, 2 damson-trees, & 22 goose-berry trees, sent me by Bror. T. W.
  • 1789: November 12, 1789 – Bror & Sister Benj. left us, & went to Newton.  Tortoise almost covered.
  • 1786: November 12, 1786 – The hogs have been turned for some weeks into the high-wood, & hanger, where they have availed themselves much of the large crop of beech-mast.  The hogs find, no doubt, many trufles in the high-wood, where they are said to abound.  Last week Wolmer-pond was sewed, & fished after an interval of almost 20 years.  And yet there was no quantity of fish; for the carps did not amount to one hundred; nor was there any young stock: tench there were none; many young perch; a few large, lank pikes; & a few large eels.  It is said that the pond is to lie a-sew all next summer.  The pond being an area of more than 60 acres, was several days in running dry.  If this pond continues dry next spring, more Roman coins may be found, in windy weather, on the surface of the sand.  Many hundreds were found when it last lay dry, about the year 1741.
  • 1785: November 12, 1785 – The ring-ouzel is killed by a hawk.
  • 1780: November 12, 1780 – Wells, streams, & ponds are very low.
  • 1778: November 12, 1778 – The vast yew-tree at Prior’s-dean is a female: males in general grow to the largest bulk.  The yew tree of East-Tisted is a female.  The great yew-tree at Selborne, & two very large ones at Faringdon are all males.
  • 1774: November 12, 1774 – Gathered-in all the grapes.  Snow on the hills.
  • 1772: November 12, 1772 – Oenas, sive vinago.  The stock-dove, or wood-pigeon appears.  Where they breed is uncertain.  They leave us in spring, & do not return ’til about this time.  Before the beechen woods were so much destroyed we had every winter prodigious flocks, reaching for a mile together as they went out from their roost of a morning.  Hartley-wood used to abound with them.  They were considerably less than the ring-dove, or queest, which breeds with us, and stays the whole year round.
  • 1769: November 12, 1769 – Glass sinks very fast.  Sheep feed in the night.

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