November 19

Posted by sydney on Nov 19th, 2008
  • 1792: November 19, 1792 – Water-cress comes in.
  • 1788: November 19, 1788 – Mr. Hale continues to chalk the black malm field opposite to J. Berriman’s house, called Hasteds. He has laid on about 120 loads on less than 3 acres.
  • 1785: November 19, 1785 – Harry Holt White left us, & went to Fyfield.
  • 1782: November 1782 – One way or other we have used most of the grapes.
  • 1781: November 19, 1781 – Planted two Cypresses in the garden.  They came from S. Lambeth.
  • 1776: November 19, 1776 – This afternoon the weather turning suddenly very warm produced an unusual appearance; for the dew on the windows was on the outside of the glass, the air being warmer abroad than within.
  • 1773: November 19, 1773 – Ring-ouzels still remain.  Gathered in the last grapes: ye crop was very large, & the grapes delicate.  And yet the vine-shoots were much pinched at their tops by frost the first week in May; & more-over Septemr was a season of continual clouds & rain. Ring-ouzels, & stone-curlews stay late with us this year.
  • 1771: November 19, 1771 – Hen chaffinches begin to congregate.
  • 1769: November 19, 1769 – Bearing ice.
  • 1768: November 19, 1768 – Many sorts of flies still appear, the musca carnaria, meridiana, tenax, &c.

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