April 29

Posted by sydney on Apr 29th, 2009
  • 1793: April 29, 1793 – I have seen no hirundo yet myself.  Sowed Columbines, two sorts; Scabius; Scarlet lychnis; Nigella; 10 weeks stocks; Mountain Lychnis.
  • 1790: April 29, 1790 – Dr. Chandler, & lady came to the parsonage house.
  • 1789: April 29, 1789 – Scarce a hirundo has been seen about this village.
  • 1786: April 29, 1786 – Red-breasts have young.
  • 1784: April 29, 1784 – The hoar-frost was so great that Thomas could hardly mow.  Bats out for the first time, I think, this spring: they hunt, & take the phalanae along by the sides of the hedges.  There had been this spring a pretty good flight of woodcocks about Liss.  If we have any of those birds of late years, it has been in the spring, in their return from the West, I suppose, to the Eastern coast.
  • 1777: April 29, 1777 – The bark of oak now runs; & I am felling some trees.  Wwen trees are sawn-off, & thrown, a rushing sound is heard from the but, often attended with a little frothing & bubbling-out of the sap.  This rushing or hissing is occasioned by the motion of the air escaping thro’ the vessels of the wood.
  • 1772: April 29, 1772 – Grass crisp, with a white frost.  Cut first cucumber, a large fruit.  Harsh wind.  Sowed annuals.
  • 1771: April 29, 1771 – White throat.  Grass begins to grow.
  • 1770: April 29, 1770 – Two swifts.
  • 1768: April 29, 1768 – Grass-hopper lark chirps at eight o’ the Clock in the evening.

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