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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