June 26

Posted by sydney on Jun 26th, 2009
  • 1791: June 26, 1791 – Fifteen Whites dines this day at my Bro. B. White’s table; as did also a Mr Wells, a great, great, great grandson of the Revd John Longworth, in old times vicar of Selborne, who dyed about the year 1678.  Dr & Mrs Chandler returned to Selborne.
  • 1785: June 26, 1785 – Annuals die thro’ heat. Hops run their poles. Mr Powlett of Rotherfield has no water for his cattle in the park, but what he fetched from Alton! He has a well for the house. Many years ago Mr Powletts’s grandfather fetched water from Alton for all his cattle, deer & all, for three months together. My well is low; but affords plenty of fine clear water. We draw great quantities for the garden. A constant spring runs through it.
  • 1784: June 26, 1784 – Fire in the parlor.
  • 1783: June 26, 1783 – Tedded the hay, & put it in a small cock.  Sun looks all day like the moon, & shed a rusty red light.  Mr & Mrs Brown, & niece Anna Barker came from the county of Rutland.
  • 1782: June 26, 1782 – Serapias latifolia blossoms in the Hanger, & high wood.
  • 1781: June 26, 1781 – Young restarts come abroad.
  • 1779: June 26, 1779 – Cold black solstice.
  • 1778: June 26, 1778 – Ricked the meadow-hay, six jobbs, & fine, & free from weeds. Did not mow the little mead.
  • 1777: June 26, 1777 – Began to cut my st foin; large and much lodged, & full of wild grasses.  The tenth crop.
  • 1776: June 26, 1776 – No young partridges are flyers yet: but by the deportment of the dams it is plain they have chickens hatched; for they rise & fall before the horses feet, & hobble along as if wounded to draw-off attention from their helpless broods.  Sphinx forte ocellata.  A vast insect; appears after it is dusk, flying with an humming noise, & inserting it’s tongue into the bloom of the honey-suckle: it scarcely settles on the plants but feeds on the wing in the manner of humming-birds.  Omiah, who is gone on board the Resolution, is expected to sail this week for Otaheite with Capt. Cook.
  • 1774: June 26, 1774 – My Brother’s vines turn pale on the chalk: the leaves begin to whither.
  • 1773: June 26, 1773 – Great hail-storm at Alton St foin not yet turned.
  • 1772: June 26, 1772 – Sun sultry, cloudless, severe heat.  Hottest day.  Ricked all the hay, save one job, in most excellent order.  Ground much burnt.
  • 1771: June 26, 1771 – Phallus impudicus olet.  Showers about.