May 14

Posted by sydney on May 14th, 2009
  • 1793: May 14, 1793 – Timothy travels about the garden.
  • 1785: May 14, 1785 – My fields have more grass than my brother’s at S. Lambeth, which burn.  My St foin looks well, & is grown.  Ponds in bottoms are dry.  Our down burn brown.
  • 1784: May 14, 1784 – Swallows build.  They take up straws in their bills, & with them a mouthful of dirt.  Fern-owl churs.  The bark of felled oaks runs remarkably well; so that the barkers earn great wages.
  • 1783: May 14, 1783 – Sowed a crop of kidney-beans.  large white Dutch.  Planted some basons in my field with China-asters, & China pinks.  Pricked out many China asters, on a mild hot-bed.  Honey-suckles stocks, & wall-flowers smell sweetly.  Tulips blow out but their cups will be much larger.  The large Apricot-tree much infested with maggots, which twist & roll-up the leaves; these we open, & destroy the maggots, which would devour most of the foliage.  These maggots are the produce of small spotted phalaenae.
  • 1782: May 14, 1782 – Tortoise eats the leaves of poppies.
  • 1781: May 14, 1781 – The hops wanted rain, & began to be annoyed by the aphides.  The ground finely refreshed.  Vast rocklike, distant clouds.
  • 1776: May 14, 1776 – Spring-corn in a sad state, not half come up.
  • 1775: May 14, 1775 – Two pairs of nightingales in my fields.  The country strangely dryed-up.  Fine showers about last friday.
  • 1774: May 14, 1774 – Swifts have encreased to their usual number of about eight of nine pairs.
  • 1769: May 14, 1769 – One shower only for a full month.
  • 1768: May 14, 1768 – Returned to Selborne.  Melon-fruit in bloom.  A brace of sand-pipers (tringa minor) at James Knight’s ponds.

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