June 9

Posted by sydney on Jun 9th, 2009
  • 1793: June 9, 1793 – Early orange-lilies blow.  Few chafers.  The water at Kingsley mill begins to fail. The land-spring in the stoney-lane, as you go to Rood, stops.  We draw much water for the garden: the well sinks very fast.
  • 1791: June 9, 1791 – Summer-cabbages, & lettuce come in.  Roses red & white blow.  Began to tack the vines.  Thomas finds more rudiments of bloom than he expected.
  • 1789: June 9, 1789 – Field-crickets shrill on the verge of the forest.  Cockoos abound there. Thinned the apricots, & took off many hundreds.
  • 1788: June 9, 1788 – Mazagon beans come in.
  • 1786: June 9, 1786 –  in Alton
    Captain Dumaresque cuts his St foin.
  • 1782: June 9, 1782 – When the servants have been gone to bed some time, & the kitchen left dark, the hearth swarms with young crickets about the size of ants: there is an other set among them of larger growth: so that it appears two broods have hatched this spring.
  • 1781: June 9, 1781 – A pair of swallows hawk for flies ’til within a quarter of nine o’clock; they probably have young hatched.
  • 1780: June 9, 1780 – Hoed the quick-sets at the bottom of the hanger.
  • 1776: June 9, 1776 – Forest-fly begins to appear.  Grass & corn grow away.
  • 1774: June 9, 1774 – Chafers are pretty well gone; they did not deface the hedges this year.  When swifts mute flying, they raise their wings over their backs.
  • 1773: June 9, 1773 – Swifts sit hard.
  • 1772: June 9, 1772 – Apis longicornis. The long-horned bees bore their nests in the ground where it is trodden the hardest.

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