April 4
Posted by sydney on Apr 4th, 2009
- 1793: April 4, 1793 – Timothy Turner ashed a great part of Baker’s hill, & dunged one part. Wag-tail on grass-plots.
- 1791: April 4, 1791 – Mary White came from London.
- 1790: April 4, 1790 – Sharp, cutting wind! Heath-fire in the forest makes a great smoke.
- 1786: April 4, 1786 – Planted 1 doz. of white currans, & six of goose-berry trees, with many rasp-plants on the orchard-side of the bank. Turned-out the cucumber-plants into the hills of the bearing-bed; they are large & strong, & began to be too big for the pots. Sowed onions, & parsnips: the ground is dusty, & works well. 10 pots of Cucumber-plants remain. Sowed radishes, & lettuce. Planted one Roman, & one Newington Nectarine-tree against the fruit-wall.
- 1781: April 4, 1781 – The rooks at Faringdon have got young. Very little spring-corn sown yet. Snow as deep as the horses belly under the hedges in the North field. A brace more of hares frequenting my grounds were killed in my absence: so that I hope now the garden will be safe fore some time.
- 1778: April 4, 1778 – A swallow was seen this morning near Ripley. Young geese.
- 1776: April 4, 1776 – No rain since the beginning of March. The ground dry & harsh. The Bombylius medius abounds. It is an hairy insect, like an humble-bee, but with only two wings, & a long straight beak, with which it sucks the early flowers, always appearing in March. The female seems to lay it’s eggs as it poises on the it’s wings, by striking it’s tail on the ground, & against the grass that stands in it’s way in a quick manner for several times together.
- 1774: April 4, 1774 – Two swallows appear at Faringdon.
- 1772: April 4, 1772 – Mackaral sky, wheel round the sun. Clouds in horizon.
- 1771: April 4, 1771 – Ring-ouzel. Pleasant day, but every thing quite dryed up. No lambs frolic & play as usual… acrior illos Cura domat — Virg.
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