June 19

Posted by sydney on Jun 19th, 2009
  • 1792: June 19, 1792 – Pinks, scarlet-lychnis, & fraxinellas blow.  The narrow-leaved blue Iris, called Xiphium, begins to blow.
  • 1791: June 19, 1791 – A flock of ravens about the hager for many days.
  • 1788: June 19, 1788 – Muscae domesticae swarm in every room. I have often heard my Brothers complain how much they were annoyed with flies at this place. They are destroyed by a poisonous water called fly-water, set in basons, & by bird-lime twigs laid across pans of water.
  • 1786: June 19, 1786 – My brother’s gardeners plant-out annuals.  The ground is well moistened.  They prick-out young cabbages, celeri, &c.
  • 1785: June 19, 1785 – Most of our oaks are naked of leaves, & even the Holt in general, having been ravaged by the caterpillars of a small phalaena, which is of a pale, yellow colour. These Insects tho’ a feeble race, yet from their infiinite numbers are of wonderful effect, being able to destroy the foliage of whole forests, & districts. At this season they leave their aurelia, & issue forth in their fly-state, swarming & covering the trees, & hedges. In a field at Greatham a saw a flight of Swifts busied in catching their prey near the ground; & found they were hawking after these phalenae. The aurelia of this moth is shining, & as black as jet; it lies wrapped-up in a leaf of the tree, which is rolled round it, & secured at the ends by a web, to preven the maggot from falling-out.
  • 1783: June 19, 1783 – Vast crops of cherlock among the spring-corn.
  • 1781: June 19, 1781 – A strange swarm of bees came and settled on my Balm of Gilead fir.
  • 1780: June 19, 1780 – Dust well-laid on the road.  Barley in ear on the sands.  Much upland-hay mowed near London.
  • 1779: June 19, 1779 – Farmer Turner cut my great meadow.  He bought the crop.  Wood-strawberries begin to ripen.
  • 1778: June 19, 1778 – My garden is much bound up, & chopped.  Annuals languish from lack of moisture.
  • 1774: June 19, 1774 – Bees frequent my chimneys: they certainly extract somewhat from the soot, the pitchy part, I suppose.
  • 1772: June 19, 1772 – Vast fog, hot sun.  Thermotmr abroad in the shade 78.  John White arrived from Cadiz.
  • 1771: June 19, 1771 – Swifts sit, & come out of an evening to feed for a few minutes.

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