June 17

Posted by sydney on Jun 17th, 2009
  • 1792: June 17, 1792 – When the servants are gone to bed, the kitchen-hearth swarms with minute crickets not so big as fleas.  The Blattae are almost subdued by the persevering assiduity of Mrs J. W. who waged war with them for many months, & destroyed thousands: at first she killed some hundreds every night.  The thermometer at George’s fields Surrey 82: on the 21, — 51.  St foin fly, sphynx filipendulae, appears.
  • 1791: June 17, 1791 – Planted out my annuals from Dan Wheeler.  Pricked out some celeri, good pants.  My crop of spinnage is just over: the produce from a pint of seed, sowed the first week in August, was prodigious.
  • 1789: June 17, 1789 – Cauliflowers.  The Opera-house in the Hay-market burnt down.
  • 1788: June 17, 1788 – Cherries turn colour, & begin to be eatable; but are small for want of moisture: are netted.  A cat gets down the pots of a neighbour’s chimney after the Swallows nests.
  • 1783: June 17, 1783 – The potatoe-shoots, that were cut-down by the frost, all spring again; the kidney-beans do not.  Lighted a fire in the parlor.
  • 1777: June 17, 1777 – My building is interrupted by the rain.
  • 1776: June 17, 1776 – Snails begin to engender, & some flew to lay eggs:  hence it is matter of consequence to destroy them before midummer.
  • 1772: June 17, 1772 – In Wilts.
    Bror. John set-out on horse-back for Cadiz.  Polygonum bistorta. Colchicum autumnale in seed.  Ephemera and phrygeaneae abound on the stream.
  • 1771: June 17, 1771 – Tearing wind which damaged all the gardens.
  • 1768: June 17, 1768 – Wheat that was lodged rises again.

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