May 20
Posted by sydney on May 20th, 2009
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- 1793: May 20, 1793 – Planted 30 cauliflowers brought from Mareland; & a row of red cabbages. The ground is so glutted with rain that men can neither plow, nor sow, nor dig.
- 1792: May 20, 1792 – The missel-thrush has a nest on the orchard pear-tree. The thunder of this evening burnt the barns, & out houses of a farm between Gosport & Titchfield, & destroyed eight fine horses.
- 1791: May 20, 1791 – The weather has been so harsh, that the swallows, & martins are not disposed to build. Found a hen redstart dead in the walks.
- 1789: May 20, 1789 – Martins build briskly at the Priory, & in the street. Oaks show prodigious bloom.
- 1788: May 20, 1788 – Fly-catcher begins to make a nest in my vine.
- 1787: May 20, 1787 – The red-start sits, & sings on the vane in Bro: Ben’s garden upon the top of an high elm.
- 1781: May 20, 1781 – Wheat very gross in some fields.
- 1776: May 20, 1776 – Wheat on the downs begins to spindle for ear.
- 1774: May 20, 1774 – Flycatcher appears: the latest summer-bird of passage. The stoparola is most punctual to the 20th of May!!! This bird, which comes so late, begins building immediately.
- 1770: May 20, 1770 – Rooks have carry’d off their young from the nest-trees.
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