May 8
Posted by sydney on May 8th, 2009
- 1792: May 8, 1792 – On this day 26 houses, besides a number of barns, stables, granaries, &c. were burnt down at Barton-Stacey near Winchester. Only ten or twelve houses were preseved, among which is the parsonage, a large farm house, & some others out of the line of the street. The people of Selborne subscribed 6 ae. 1 s. 0 d. on this occasion: the county collection was very large & ample.
- 1790: May 8, 1790 – Began to mow the orchard for the horses.
- 1789: May 8, 1789 – Cut the first mesh of asparagus. The bloom of plums is very great. Peat-carting begins.
- 1786: May 8, 1786 – Plolyanths make a fine show. Pastures yellow with bloom of dandelion, & with cowslips.
- 1785: May 8, 1785 – There is a great want of rain in France as well as in England. A cuckow haunts my brother’s fields; so that probably there will be a young cuckow hatched in the quickset-hedge. Millions of empedes, or tipulae, come forth at the close of day, & swarm to such a degree as to fill the air. At this juncture they sport & copulate: as it grows more dark they retire. All day they hide in hedges. As they rise in a cloud they appear like smoke: I do not remember to have seen such swarms except in the fens of the Island of Ely. They appear most over grass-mounds.
- 1784: May 8, 1784 – Auricula’s blow finely in the natural ground. Owls have eggs. The hanger almost all green. Many trees in the Lythe in full leaf. Beeches on the common hardly budding.
- 1783: May 8, 1783 – Apple-trees in high bloom; in danger from the frost.
- 1781: May 8, 1781 – Timothy lies close this cold weather.
- 1780: May 8, 1780 – The Lathraea squammaria grows also on the bank of Trimming’s orchard, just above the dry wall, opposite Grange-yard.
- 1779: May 8, 1779 – A good crop of rye-grass in the field sown last year; but the white clover takes only in patches. Sowed 4 pounds more of white clover, & a willow basket of hay-seeds. [Later note] The white clover since is spread all over the field.
- 1778: May 8, 1778 – Sowed the Ewel-close, now barley, with 12 pounds of white clover, two bushels of Rye-grass, & a quarter of meadow-grass seeds from a farmer’s hay-loft. The ground is too wet, & will not harrow well. Strong wheat-land.
- 1774: May 8, 1774 – White-throat warbles softly. Mistake: it was the black-cap: whitethroats are always harsh & unmusical.
- 1772: May 8, 1772 – Fields & gardens suffer by the severe harsh winds. Farmers in stiff ground can sow no barley: not one grain is yet sown on Newton great farm.
- 1771: May 8, 1771 – Asparagus begins to sprout.
- 1769: May 8, 1769 – Green goose-berries. Lapwing’s eggs at the poulterers.
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