July 9
Posted by sydney on Jul 9th, 2009
- 1792: July 9, 1792 – The Provost & Lady left us. Thunder in the night, & most part of the day to the S. & S.E. Yellow evening.
- 1791: July 9, 1791 – A cuckoo cries in my Brors garden: some birds of that sort have frequented this place all the summer. Young swallows at Stockewell. In Mr Malcolm’s garden there is a bed of small silver firs, the tops of which are all killed by the frosts in June. The hothouses of this Gent. afford a most noble appearance; & his plantations are grand, & splendid. Passion-flower begins to blow in the open air. Cucumbers are scarce, & sell for 2 1/2 d. a piece. Crops of pease go off. Some cleri trenched out form the seedling bed.
- 1790: July 9, 1790 – Gathered our first beans, long pods. Planted-out annuals.
- 1788: July 9, 1788 – Bunches of snake’s eggs are found under some straw near the hot-beds. Several snakes haunted my out-let this summer, & cast their sloughs in the garden, & elsewhere. Cran-berries are offered at the door.
- 1786: July 9, 1786 – Roses, sweet-williams, pinks, white & orange lilies make a gaudy show in my garden. Annuals are stunted for want of rain. Mr White’s tank at Newton measure three feet in water.
- 1785: July 9, 1785 – Ants swarm on the stairs: their male-flies leave them, & fill the windows: their females do not yet appear.
- 1783: July 9, 1783 – Bees have thriven well this summer, being assisted by the honey-dews, which have abounded this year.
- 1779: July 9, 1779 – A surprizing humming of bees all over the common, tho’ none can be seen! This is frequently the case in hot weather.
- 1776: July 9, 1776 – Bees are very quarrelsome, and stung me.
- 1774: July 9, 1774 – Young swifts helpless squabs still. Young martins not out.
* I procured a bricklayer to open the tiles in several places of my Bro.s brewhouse in order to examine the state of swift’s nests at that season, & the number of their young. This enquiry confirmed my suspicions that they never lay more than two eggs at a time: for in several nests which we discovered, there were only two squab young apiece. As swifts breed but once in a summer, & the other hirundines twice: the latter, who lay from four to six eggs, encrease five times as fast as the former: & therefore it is not to be wondered that swifts are very numerous. - 1773: July 9, 1773 – Hay makes well. Flocks of lapwings on the common. After breeding they forsake the moory places, & take to the high grounds.
- 1772: July 9, 1772 – Meadow-hay begins to be cut. Some barley in ear: wheat uneven. Watered annuals. Finished cutting the tall hedges.
- 1768: July 9, 1768 – The capsule of the tway-blade bursts at a touch, & scatters the dust-like seed on all sides.
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