June 12

Posted by sydney on Jun 12th, 2009
  • 1793: June 12, 1793 – Bright, sun, golden even. Cut eight cucumbers. Mrs. Clement & children left us. Many swifts.
  • 1792: June 12, 1792 – Mr Burbey has got eleven martins nests under the eaves of his old shop.
  • 1791: June 12, 1791 – Clouds, hail, shower, gleams.  Sharp air, & fire in the parlor.  Showers about.  Garden-crops much retarded, & nothing can be planted.  Farmer Bridger sends me three real snipe’s eggs: they are in shape, & colour exactly like those of the lapwing, only one half less.  The colour of the eggs is a dull yellow, spotted with chocolate:  they are blunt at the great end, & taper much till they become sharp at the smaller.  The eggs, sent me for snipe’s eggs last year, seem to have been those of a fern-owl.
  • 1790: June 12, 1790 – Cauliflowers abound.  Pease sold for ten pence the peck.
  • 1789: June 12, 1789 – Bror Benjn cuts his grass, clover & rye, a decent burden, but much infested with wild chamomile, vulg: margweed: mayweed.
  • 1788: June 12, 1788 – My Brother’s gardener cut his first melon, a Romagna.
  • 1787: June 12, 1787 – A poor gardener in this parish who had three acres of kidney-beans, has lost them all by the frost of last week! Hay finely made, & making. The rudiments of the vine-bloom does not seem to be injured by the late frost.
  • 1784: June 12, 1784 – Men wash their sheep.  Hoed carrots, parsneps, &c.  Received 5 gallons & a quart of French brandy from Mr Edmd Woods.
  • 1783: June 12, 1783 – Ophrys nidus avis, many in bloom in the hanger, along the side of ye Bostal.
  • 1780: June 12, 1780 – Dragon-flies.  Bees swarm.  Sheep are shorn.
  • 1776: June 12, 1776 – Drones abound round the mouth of the hive that is expected to swarm.  Sheep are shorn.
  • 1774: June 12, 1774 – Odd meteorous circle round the sun, which the common people call a mock sun.
  • 1772: June 12, 1772 – St foin blows, & gets very tall.
  • 1768: June 12, 1768 – Glow-worms abound.  Phallus stinks in the hedges.

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