March 16
Posted by sydney on Mar 16th, 2009
- 1792: March 16, 1792 – Daffodil blows… “it takes the winds of March/ Before the Swallow dares.”
- 1790: March 16, 1790 – Dog’s toothed violets blow.
- 1789: March 16, 1789 – Mended the cucumber frames.
- 1787: March 16, 1787 – The cats brought-in a dead house-martin from the stable. I was in hopes at first sight that it might have been in a torpid state; but it was decayed, & dry. Polyanths blow. Jet-ants appear.
- 1782: March 16, 1782 – Frost, ice, small flights of snow. Peaches, & Nect. forwarder in bloom than apricots.
- 1775: March 16, 1775 – Ephemerae bistae come forth.
- 1771: March 16, 1771 – Crocuss begins to blow & make a show. Upon examination it seems probable that the gulls which I saw were the pewit-gulls, or black caps, the larus ridibundus Linn: They haunt, it seems, inland pools, & sometimes breed on them. See Brit. zool vol: 2nd.
- 1770: March 16, 1770 – Tussilago farfara. Thick ice. Ground as hard as a stone.
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