June 4

Posted by sydney on Jun 4th, 2009
  • 1793: June 4, 1793 – Cinnamon-rose blows.
  • 1792: June 4, 1792 – Hay making about London.
  • 1791: June 4, 1791 – Saint foin blows, & the Stfoin fly Sphinx filipendula, appears. Rain at Emsworth. Fyfield sprung a fern-owl on the zig-zag which seemed confounded by the glare of the sun, & dropped again immediately. Mr. Bridger sends me a fine present of trouts caught in the stream down at Oakhanger. The distant hills look very blue in the evenings.
  • 1789: June 4, 1789 – Ophrys nidus-avis, and ophrys apifera blossom.
  • 1788: June 4, 1788 – Dingy. Saw some red-backed butcher birds about Farnham.
  • 1787: June 4, 1787 – Bror. Ben cuts his hay.  Pease are cryed about at 1s. 6d. per peck.  Kidney-beans & potatoes are injured by the frost of saturday night.
  • 1786: June 3, 1786 – Daws from the church take the chafers on my trees, & hedges.  Thomas picks the caterpillars that damage the foliage of the apricot-trees, & roll up their leaves.
  • 1785: June 4, 1785 – Several halo’s & mock-suns this morning.  Wheat looks black, & gross.  Crickets sing much on the hearth this evening:  they feel the influence of moist air, & sing against rain.  As the great wall-nut tree has no foliage this year, we have hung the meat-safe on Miss White’s Sycomore, which she planted a nut;  where it will be much in the air, & be well sheltered from the sun by leaves.
  • 1784: June 4, 1784 – A pair of fern-owls haunt round the zig-zag. Columbines make a fine show; this is the third year of their blowing.
  • 1783: June 4, 1783 – Cut the tall hedge down Baker’s hill.
  • 1783: June 3, 1783 – Turned mould for future hot-bed. Showers about. Great rain at Farnham, Froil &c. Rain at London.
  • 1782: June 4, 1782 – Kidney-beans in a poor way: they have all been in danger of rotting.
  • 1775: June 4, 1775 – Roses begin to blow:  pinks bud; fraxinella blows.  Garden burnt to powder.
  • 1774: June 4, 1774 – The leaves of the mulberry-tree hardly begin to peep.  The vines promise well for bloom.  Apis longicornis works at it’s nest in the ground only in a morning while the sun shines on the walk.  Earth-worms make their casts most in the mild weather about March & April:  they do not lie torpid in winter, but come forth when there is no frost.
  • 1773: June 4, 1773 – Began to tack the vines, which are backward.  Crataegus aria blows beautifully.
  • 1772: June 4, 1772 – In Arundel
    Rain, dark and windy, driving rain, stormy.
  • 1770: June 4, 1770 – Fleas abound on the steep sand-banks where the bank-martins build.
  • 1769: June 4, 1769 – Bees swarm.  Turtle-dove cooes.

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