March 26

Posted by sydney on Mar 26th, 2009
  • 1793: March 26, 1793 – Snow, rain, harsh.  A sad wintry day!
  • 1792: March 26, 1792 – Crocus’s go off.  The Kingsley miller assures me that he saw a Swallow skimming over the meadow near the mill.  Hirundines are often seen early near mill-ponds, & other waters.
  • 1791: March 26, 1791 – Cucumber-plants show bloom: but the bed is too hot, & draws the plants.  We sow our seeds too soon, so that the plants want to be turned out of the pots before the great bed can be got to due temperament.
  • 1789: March 26, 1789 – Icicles hang all day.  Hot-bed smokes.
  • 1788: March 26, 1788 – Large Mackarel.
  • 1787: March 26, 1787 – Transplanted some of the best, blowing seedling polyanths from the orchard to the bank in the garden.  Planted some scorpion-sennas from S. Lambeth.
  • 1786: March 26, 1786 – Viper comes out.  Two swallows were seen at Nismes in Languedoc: & on the 28th several, tho’ the air was sharp, & some flakes of snow fell.
  • 1785: March 26, 1785 – Sowed the great mead with ashes.
  • 1779: March 26, 1779 – Made an asparagus bed: that which was made last spring was spoiled for want of ran.  Planted potatoes: sowed carrots.
  • 1777: March 26, 1777 – Two sultry days; Mrs Snooke’s tortoise came forth out of the ground; but retired again to it’s hybernaculum in a day or two, & did not appear any more for near a fortnight.  Swallows appeared also on the same days, & withdrew again: a strong proof this of their hiding.
  • 1776: March 26, 1776 – Flocks of fieldfares remain: no red-wings are seen.  No song-thrushes are heard; the seem to be destroyed by the hard weather.  Some wagtails survive.
  • 1774: March 26, 1774 – Peaches, nectarines, & apricots in fine bloom.  No rain since the 9th: stiff ground still very wet.  Thomas began to mow the grass plot.  My new-laid turf, where not damaged by the continual standing of water after the vast rains, looks well.
  • 1773: March 26, 1773 – Grass begins to grow.  A large flock of titlarks on the common, feeding & flitting on, probably going down to the forest to the moory moist places.
  • 1772: March 26, 1772 – Planted-out some rudiments of stout cucumr plants into the bearing beds: rudiments of fruit show.
  • 1771: March 26, 1771 – Thermorm at sunrise down at 17 abroad: at 10 o’clock at night 25: at sun rise 23 1/2.
  • 1770: March 26, 1769 – Sowed carrots, parsneps, onions, coss-lettuce, leeks, lark-spurs.
  • 1768: March 26, 1768 – Ground is all dust.  Sowed various sorts of seeds from the physic-garden at Oxford.

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