May 4

Posted by sydney on May 4th, 2009
  • 1793: May 4, 1793 – Some beeches begin to show leaves.  Sowed some fine Savoy seed from Newton.  Hen red-start appears.
  • 1792: May 4, 1792 – Began to use the lettuces under the fruit wall.
  • 1791: May 4, 1791 – Planted some tricolor violets, & some red cabbages sent from South Lambeth.
  • 1789: May 4, 1789 – Beat the grass-banks in the garden.  Put up the urns.  Martins come into old nests.  Bat out.  Nightingale in my out-let.  Snails come out.
  • 1788: May 4, 1788 – Shade the best tulips from the vehemence of the sun.  Polyanths are hurried out of bloom.  Vine-shoots are forward.  Sowed the great annual-frame with flower-seeds: sowed two hand-glasses with cucumbers, green & white.  Timothy wanders round the garden, & strives to get out: he is shut-up in the brew-house to prevent an escape.
  • 1787: May 4, 1787 – Sowed a plot of red beet.
  • 1786: May 4, 1786 – Cut two fine cucumbers; & began to eat the brown lettuces under the fruit-wall, where they stood the winter.  Lettuce well-loaved, & very fine.
  • 1782: May 4, 1782 – Vegetation is at a stand, & Timothy the tortoise fast asleep.  The trees are still naked.
  • 1778: May 4, 1778 – The king & queen are this day at Portsmouth to see the fleet at Spithead.  There were five general running firings, which shook my house & made the windows jar.  The firings were at ten, twelve, on, four.
  • 1776: May 4, 1776 – Field crickets shrill.  Snipes in the forest.  The forest quite burnt-up.  Small reed-sparrow sings.  Young ring-doves fledge.  Hay is risen to four pounds per ton: no grass in the fields, & great distress among the cattle.
  • 1774: May 4, 1774 – Asparagus in plenty.  Orchard-grass cut for the horses.
  • 1772: May 4, 1772 – Ground very hard & cloddy; & wants rain before it can be sown.
  • 1771: May 4, 1771 – Showers, spring weather.  Cucumbers swell away, & set apace.  Black-caps appear & begin to sing.  Sowed white dwarf kidney beans.
  • 1770: May 4, 1770 – Nightingales abound.
  • 1769: May 4, 1769 – Crayfish in high season.  Smelts in season.

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