June 3
Posted by sydney on Jun 3rd, 2009
- 1793: June 3, 1793 – The ground sadly burnt up. Royal russets show much bloom. Summer cabbage comes in.
- 1792: June 3, 1792 – No may-chafers this year. The intermediate flowers, which now figure between the spring, & solstitial, are the early orange, & fiery-lily, the columbine, the early honey-suckle, the peony, the garden red valeriam, the double rocket or dames violet, the broad blue flag-iris, the thrift, the double lychnis, spider-wort, monks-hood, &c.
- 1791: June 3, 1791 – Myriads of tadpoles travers Comb-wood pond in shoales: when rain comes they will emigrate to land, & cover the paths & fields. We draw much water for the garden, so that the well sinks. Flowers are hurried out of bloom by the heat; spring-corn & gardens suffer.
- 1789: June 3, 1781 – Wheat-ears begin to burst-out. Boys bring hornets. The planet Venus is just become an evening star: but being now in the descending signs; that is, the end of Virgo, where it now is, being a lower part of the Zodiac than the end of Leo, where the sun is; Venus does not continue up an hour after the sun, & therefore must be always in a strong twilight. It sets at present N. of the west; but will be in the S.W. but not set an hour after the sun ’til Octr. from which time it will make a good figure ’til March in the S.W., W., & a little to the N. of the W.
- 1788: June 3, 1788 – At S. Lambeth
Blue mist. Hay-making is general about Clapham & South Lambeth: Bror. Benjamin has eight acres of hay down, & making. - 1787: June 3, 1787 – Bror. Thomas cuts cauliflowers. The foliage on the Lombardy-poplars is very poor.
- 1784: June 3, 1784 – Corn looks finely. Pricked-out some good celeri-plants. Turned the horses into Berriman’s field.
- 1780: June 3, 1780 – The phalaena called the swift nighthawk appears.
- 1777: June 3, 1777 – The foliage of the nectarines is much blotched & shrivelled, so that the trees look poorly.
- 1776: June 3, 1776 – Soft rain. Grass & corn improved by the rain already. The long-horned bees bore their holes in the walks.
- 1775: June 3, 1775 – Hot sun, & brisk gale, sweet even. Dusty beyond comparison. Watered away five hogsheads of water. Stoparola has five eggs. Rooks live hard: there are no chafers. Barley & oats do not come up; the fields look naked. Some pairs of swifts always build in this village under the low thatched roofs of some of the meanest cottages: & as there fails to be nests in those particular houses, it looks as if some of the same family still returned to the same place.
- 1774: June 3, 1774 – Martins abound: they came late, but appear to be more in number than usual. Some pairs of martins repair, & inhabit nests of several years standing.
- 1773: June 3, 1773 – A dozen pairs of swifts appear at times. Some heads of St. foin begin to blow.
- 1770: June 3, 1770 – Chafers much suppressed by the cold & the rain.
- 1769: June 3, 1769 – Saw the planet Venus enter the disk of the sun. Just as the sun was setting the spot was very visible to the naked eye. Nightingale sings; wood-owl hoots; fern-own chatters.
- 1768: June 3, 1768 – The reed-sparrow, passer troquatus in aurundinetis nidificans, sings at Liss, near Mrs. Cole’s ponds. It sings night and day while breeding & has a fine variety of notes.
*As it appears since, this was the passer arundicnaceus minor of Ray: a thin-billed bird, and probably a bird of summer passage.
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