April 30
Posted by sydney on Apr 30th, 2009
- 1793: April 30, 1793 – Saw two swallows at Gracious street.
- 1792: April 30, 1792 – Men tye their hops. Dressing some of the borders. Heavy thunderous clouds. Tulips blow. On this beautiful evening came all at once seven Swifts, which began to dash & play round the church. Chur-worm jars down at Dorton in swampy ground. Mrs Ben White, & her son Tom came from London.
- 1789: April 30, 1789 – Brother Thomas White, & daughter, & little Tom came.
- 1788: April 30, 1788 – Began to mow the orchard for the horses. Timothy wighs 6 ae 13 oz. 10d. Mole-cricket churs.
- 1787: April 30, 1787 – April 30 was cold & sharp at Rolle; when a number of martins formed two thick clusters on a ledge projecting in front of an house in one of the streets of that town. They descended gently as they arrived one on another.
- 1784: April 30, 1784 – Goose-berry bushes leaf: quicksets still naked. Pile-wort in full bloom. Tulips shoot, & are strong. Sowed a pint of scarlet kidney-beans.
- 1783: April 30, 1783 – Gardens want rain. We water every day. Cucumbers come.
- 1781: April 30, 1781 – Men pole their hops. Dragon-fly & musca meridiana. Ponds begin to be dry.
- 1780: April 30, 1780 – A sprig of Antrrhinum cymbalaria, the ivy-leaved Toadsflax, which was planted last year on a shady water-table of the wall of my house, grew at a vast rate, & extended itself a full nine feet; & it was in perpetual bloom ’til the hard frost came. In the severity of the winter it seemd to die: but it now revives again with vigor, & shows the rudiments of flowers. When in perfection it is a lovely plant. Lathraea squammaria blows in the coppice below the church-litten near the foot-bridge over the stream.
- 1779: April 30, 1779 – Two swifts seen at Puttenham in Surrey. Bank-martins on the heaths all the way to London.
- 1776: April 30, 1776 – Birds silent for want of showers. Acer majus in bloom. The sycamore, when in bloom, affords great pabulum for the bees, & sends forth an honey-like smell. All the maples have sccharine juices.
- 1775: April 30, 1775 – Gardens much injured by the heat. White throat appears, & whistles, using odd gesticulations in the air when it mounts above the hedges.
- 1774: April 30, 1774 – Vine-shoots have been pinched by the frost. Two house-martins up at Mr Yalden’s. If bees, who are much the best setters of cucumbers, do not happen to take kindly to the frames, the best way is to tempt them by a little honey put on the male & female bloom. When they are once induced to haunt the frames, they set all the fruit, & will hover with impatience round the lights in a morning, ’til the glasses are opened.
- 1772: April 30, 1772 – White-throat returns & whistles. Golden-crested wren whistles: his note is as minute as his person.
- 1770: April 30, 1770 – Titlark sings: frogs migrate.
- 1769: April 30, 1769 – Fresh ling. Hollibut. Inyx.
- 1768: April 30, 1768 – The grass-hopper lark chirps concealed at the bottom of hedges.
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