May 16
Posted by sydney on May 16th, 2009
- 1793: May 16, 1793 – Sowed-in the three-light annual frame African & French marigolds, China asters, pendulous Amaranths, Orange-gourds. Took the blackbird’s nest the second time; it had squab young.
- 1791: May 16, 1791 – Saw a flie-catcher in the vicarage, I think.
- 1790: May 16, 1790 – One polyanth-stalk produced 47 pips or blossoms. Mrs Edmund White brought to bed of a boy, who has encreased the number of my nephews & nieces to 56. The bloom of apples is great: the white pippin, as usual, very full. It is a most useful tree, & always bears fruit. The dearling in the meadow is loaded with fruit :last year it produced only one peck of apples, the year before 14 bushels. [*later note] This year it bore 10 bush. of small fruit. The white pippin produced a good crop again this year: the apples of this tree come in for scalding, & pies in August.
- 1787: May 16, 1787 – Agues abound around S. Lambeth. Cucumbers not plenty.
- 1784: May 16, 1784 – Sultry. Left off fires in the parlor. So much sun hurries the flowers out of bloom. Flesh-files begin to appear.
- 1780: May 16, 1780 – Wheat looks somewhat yellow. Men sow barley: but the ground is cold, & cloddy.
- 1778: May 16, 1778 – Nightingales visit my fields & sing awhile: but withdraw, & travel on: some years they breed with me.
- 1774: May 16, 1774 – A pair of martins began building their nest against my brew-house.
- 1772: May 16, 1772 – 20 horses with vast labour cannot on moderate ground sow more than three acres of barley in a day, instead of seven or eight. The ground wants endless rolling & dragging. the drought has lasted one month.
- 1771: May 16, 1771 – Hanger in leaf this day yesterday but a few trees were green. Trees & hedges in general begin to leaf.
- 1770: May 16, 1770 – Mole-cricket churs.
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