June 16

Posted by sydney on Jun 16th, 2009
  • 1792: June 16, 1792 – Planted some hand-glass plants in the frames of the fruiting cucumber-bed: cut down the lining, & worked it up with some grass-mowings.  Some young fly-catchers are out, & fed by their dams.
  • 1791: June 16, 1791 – Snails come out of hedges after their long confinement from the drought.  A swallow in Tanner’s chimney has hatched.  The fern on the forest is killed; but hardly touched by the frost on Selborne down, which is 400 feet higher than Wolmer.
  • 1790: June 16, 1790 – My brother finishes a large rick of hay in very nice order.
  • 1784: June 16, 1784 – Phallus impudicus, a stink-pot comes up in Mr. Burbey’s asparagus-bed.  Received a Hogsh: of port-wine, imported at Southampton.
  • 1782: June 16, 1782 – This hot weather makes the tortoise so alert that he traverses all the garden by six o’clock in the morning.  When the sun grows very powerful he retires under a garden-mat, or the shelter of some cabbage; not loving to be about in vehement heat.  In such weather, he eats greedily.
  • 1781: June 16, 1781 – My garden in nice order, & full of flowers in bloom.  Lilies, roses, fraxinellas, red valerians, Iris’s, &c., now make a gaudy show.
  • 1774: June 16, 1774 – Fern-owl chatters in the hanger.
  • 1773: June 16, 1773 – Sheep are shorn.
  • 1771: June 16, 1771 – Tempestuous wind & vast rain for 28 hours.
  • 1769: June 16, 1769 – The less reed-sparrow, passer arundinaceus minor Raii, sings sweetly, imitating the notes of several birds: it haunts near waters, & sings all night long.  Cold weather: nothing grows well. St foin wants to be cut.  A distinct lunar rain-bow.

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