June 18

Posted by sydney on Jun 18th, 2009
  • 1792: June 18, 1792 – The spotted Bantam hen brings out seven chickens.  Took a black birds nest the third time: the young were fledged, & flew out of the nest at a signal given by the old ones.
  • 1791: June 18, 1791 – Pricked out more celeri in my garden, & Mr. Burbery’s.  Planted some cabbages from Dr Chandeler’s.  Timothy hides himself during this wintry weather.  The dry weather lasted just 3 weeks & 3 days; part of which was very sultry, & part very cold.
  • 1788: June 18, 1788 – Neither the pease or beans have the same flavour, & sweetness as in moist summers.
  • 1787: June 18, 1787 – A pair of fly-catchers build in my vines.  The late frost did much damage at Fyfield, but little or none at Selborne.  My potatoes, kidney-beans, & nasturtiums were not injured: some balsoms, that touched the glasses, were scorched.
  • 1785: June 18, 1785 – The yew-hedges at the vicarage half-killed by the winter.  My tall hedges are much injured by the severity of last winter: many boughs are killed, & the foliage in general is thin.
  • 1782: June 18, 1782 – Apis longicornis swarms in my walk down Baker’s hill, & bores the ground full of holes, both in the grass, & brick-walk. Peat begins to be brought in. On this day there was a great thunder-storm in London. Probably much rain fell this day at some distance to the S.W. While the thunder was about, the stone pavement in some parts of the entry & kitchen sweated & stood in drops of water. The farmers say, that the chafers, which abound in some parts, fall off the hedges & the trees on the sheeps backs, where being entangled in the wooll they die, & being blown by flies, fill the sheep with maggots. The epidemic disorder rages in an alarming manner in our fleet. Sr John L. Ross has left the N. sea, & is returned to the downs, not being able to continue his cruize on account of the general sickness of his crews.
  • 1781: June 18, 1781 – The st foin is in a bad way about the neighbourhood.
  • 1774: June 18, 1774 – Variable winds, & clouds flying different ways.  Ricked the St foin, four jobbs.  Rather under made, but not at all damaged by the rain.  It was made in swarth, & lay 8 days.
    * Most birds drink sipping a little at a time:  but pigeons take a long continued draught like quadrupeds.  Some swallows build down the mouths of the chalk draught-holes on Faringdon-common.  House-martins retire to rest pretty soon: they roost in their nest as soon as ever it is big enough to contain them.  Martins build the shell of a nest frequently, & then forsake it, & build a new one.
  • 1773: June 18, 1773 – Some ears of wheat begin to appear.  Measles epidemic to a wonderful degree: whole families down at a time.  Several children that had been reduced by the whooping-cough dyed of them.
  • 1772: June 18, 1772 – Thomas cut my St foin.