Posted by sydney on Jun 22nd, 2009
  • 1790: June 22, 1790 – Thermometer at Mr Alexander’s– 87 on a N. wall; at S. wall near.  Fruit-walls in the sun are so hot that I cannot bear my hand on them.  Bror Thos’ thermr was 89 on an E. wall in the afternoon.
    *Much damage done, & some persons killed by lightening on this sultry day.  My Bro. Thos’s thermr in Blackfriars road against an eastern wall in the afternoon was 89.  My thermomr after the sun was got round upon it, was 100: Thomas forgot to look in time.
  • 1788: June 22, 1788 – My fly-catchers left their nest this day.
  • 1787: June 22, 1787 – Netted the wall-cherries.  Boys bring wood-strawberries;  not ripe.
  • 1786: June 22, 1786 – Jasmine in warm aspects begins to blow.
  • 1785: June 22, 1785 – Turbid sunset: the disk of the sun looked like three suns.  Full moon.
  • 1784: June 22, 1784 – The wind broke-off a great bough from Molly White’s horse-chestnut tree.
  • 1783: June 22, 1783 – Corn-flags, fraxinella, martagons, pinks, & dark-leaved ornage-lilies begin to blow.  Bees swarm. Cherries look finely, but are not yet highly ripened.
  • 1780: June 22, 1780 – Gloomy & moist, rain.  Sold my st. foin the 13th crop. Lighted a fire in the dining room.  Rain at S. Lambeth 32.
  • 1779: June 22, 1779 – Farmer Turner housed his hay;  it should, I think, have lain a day longer.
  • 1777: June 22, 1777 – Swallows are hawking after food for their young ’til near nine o’ the clock.  They take true pains to support their family.
  • 1775: June 22, 1775 – Pines begin to ripen at Hartley.  I have not seen the great species of bat this summer.
    * Teals breed in Woolmer-forest: jack-snipes breed there also  no doubt, since they are to be found there the summer thro’.  A person assures me, that Mr Meymot, an old clergyman at North cappel in Sussex, kept a cuckow in a cage three or four years; & that he had seen it several times, both winter and summer.  It made a little jarring noise, but never cryed ‘cuckow’: It might perhaps have been a hen.  He did not remember how it subsided.
  • 1774: June 22, 1774 – Spiraea filipendula, Valeriana offic:. Quail calls.  Young backward rooks just flown.  Young nightingales flown.  Mayflies abound on the Whorwel streams & are taken by hirundines.
  • 1773: June 22, 1773 – The King came down to Portsmouth to see the fleet.
    * June the 22 : 23 : 24. The firings at Spithead were so great that they shook this house. They were heard on those days at Ringmer two miles east of Lewes in Sussex; & at Epsom in Surry.
  • 1772: June 22, 1772 – Sweet hay-making day.  Put all the St. foin up in a large cock in excellent order: four large jobs.
  • 1769: June 22, 1769 – Thistles begin to blow.  Young wheat-ears, birds so called.

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