April 5

Posted by sydney on Apr 5th, 2009
  • 1793: April 5, 1793 – The air smells very sweet, & salubrious.  Men dig their hop-gardens, & sow spring-corn.  Cucumber plants show rudiments of fruit.  Planted cuttings of currans, & goose-berries.  Dug some of the quarters in the garden, & sowed onions, parsnips, radishes, & lettuces.  Planted more beans in the meadow.  Many flies are out basking in the sun.
  • 1792: April 5, 1792 – Wind damages the hedges.  Some thatch torn by the wind.  Mr White’s tank at Newton runs over, & Capt. Dumaresque’s is near full.
  • 1789: April 5, 1789 – Wry-neck pipes.  The smallest uncrested wren chirps loudly, & sharply in the hanger.
  • 1788: April 5, 1788 – The first radishes failed.  After all Mr Charles Etty did not sail fm St Hellens ’till this morning.
  • 1784: April 5, 1784 – My crocus’s are in full bloom, & make a most gaudy show. Those eaten-off by the hares last year were not injured.
  • 1781: April 5, 1781 – Searched the S.E. end of the hanger for house-martins, but without any success, tho’ many young me assisted.  They examined the beechen-shrubs & holes in the steep hanger.
  • 1780: April 5, 1780 – The frost injured the bloom of the wall-trees: covered the bloom with boughs of ivy.
  • 1774: April 5, 1774 – The ground harrows, & rakes well.
  • 1772: April 5, 1772 – Uncrested wren chirps.  Barometer falls apace.  Ants appear.
  • 1770: April 5, 1770 – Mercuralis perennis.  Oxalis acetosella.  Sour, cold day.  Great storms about.
  • 1769: April 5, 1769 – Anemone pulsatilla budds.  This plant, the pasque flower, which is just emerging and budding for bloom, abounds on the sheep-down just above Streatley in Berks.
  • 1768: April 5, 1768 – Luscinia!

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