April 17

Posted by sydney on Apr 17th, 2009
  • 1792: April 17, 1792 – Saw a pair of swallows at Alton.
  • 1789: April 17, 1789 – Five gallons of french brandy from London.  Cucumbers show fruit in bloom.  Cuculus cuculat: the voice of the cuckoo is heard in Blackmoor woods.  Sowed hollyhocks, columbines, snapdragons, stocks, mignonette, all from S. Lambeth, in a bed in the garden: also sweet williams, & Cantebury bells.
  • 1787: April 17, 1787 – Pears, cherries, & plums in fine bloom along the road.  Some hundreds of martins were seen to pass over Rolle towards Geneva, & two swifts; the day was wet & cold.
  • 1786: April 17, 1786 – Sowed a box of polyanth seeds, of our own saving.
  • 1784: April 17, 1784 – The buds of the vines are not swelled yet at all.  In fine springs they have shot by this time two or three inches.
  • 1783: April 17, 1783 – Tortoise weighs 6 ae 11 1/4 oun. He begins to eat.
  • 1782: April 17, 1782 – Several Black-caps are heard to sing.
  • 1780: April 17, 1780 – On this day Sir G: B: Rodney defeated the French fleet of Martinique.
  • 1779: April 17, 1779 – Rain greatly wanted.  No spring corn comes up.  The dry weather has now lasted four months; from the 15th of Decemr 1778.  Apple-trees blow this year a full month soon than last year.  The hanger is pretty well in full leaf: last year not ’til May 15.  Musca meridiana.
  • 1775: April 17, 1775 – Mrs Snooke’s tortoise came out of the ground the second time, for the summer.
  • 1774: April 17, 1774 – The middle willow wren sings a plaintive, but pleasing note.
  • 1773: April 17, 1773 – Bank martin appears.  House martin appears.  Many swallows.  Grass grows very fast.  Ring-ouzels are first seen on their spring migration.  They are very late this year.
  • 1772: April 17, 1772 – Regulus non cristatus a pretty paintive note.  Chilly air.  Ice.  Martins appear.
  • 1771: April 17, 1771 – Snow on the ground.  No oedicnemus (land curlew) has been heard yet.
  • 1770: April 17, 1770 – Averdavines in Oxfordshire.  These were passeres torquati, or reed-sparrows.
  • 1768: April 17, 1768 – Rooks have young.  Young ravens fledged.  Forked-tailed kite lays three eggs.  Redstart sings for the first time.

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