April 22

Posted by sydney on Apr 22nd, 2009
  • 1791: April 22, 1791 – The merise, or wild cherries in vast bloom.  Grass grows, & clover looks very fine.  Mr & Mrs B. White, & Hannah left us & went to Newton.
  • 1789: April 22, 1789 – Young broods of goslings.  Wood-sorrel, & anemony blow.  The cuckoo cries along the hanger.  Wheat thrives.
  • 1784: April 22, 1784 – The spring backward to an unusual degree! Some swallows are come, but I see no insects except bees, & some phalanae in the evenings.  Daffodils begin to blow.
  • 1783: April 22, 1783 – Young goslings abound.  No hirundines.
  • 1780: April 22, 1780 – Tortoise comes-forth & walks round his coop: will not eat lettuce yet: goes to sleep at four o’clock p:m:  In the hot weather last summer a flight of house-crickets were dispersed about the village: one got from the garden into my kitchen-chimney, & continued there all winter.  There is now a considerable encrease & many young appear in the evening running about, & hunting for crumbs.  From this circumstance it should seem that the impregnated females migrate.  This is the case with ants.
  • 1776: April 22, 1776 – Codlings blow.  Hot-beds want rain to make them ferment.
  • 1775: April 22, 1775 – Several beeches in the hanger begin to leaf.  Black snails abound.  Womrs, when sick, seem to come out of the Ground to die: under the same circumstances some amphibiae quit the water.  * Thomas kept a journal of incidents during my absence.
  • 1774: April 22, 1774 – Cuckoo cries.
  • 1773: April 22, 1773 – Grasshopper-lark chirps.  Alauda minima locustae voce stridet.
  • 1772: April 22, 1772 – The bloom of the fruit-trees on the wall does not seem to be destroyed.  Sowed all sorts of garden seeds as carrots, parsneps, &c.  Cucumbers swell.
  • 1771: April 22, 1771 – Nightingale.  No more swallows appear.  Great showers about.
  • 1770: April 22, 1770 – Snowy, stormy.
  • 1768: April 22, 1768 – Cut a brace of large cucumbers.

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