July 21
Posted by sydney on Jul 21st, 2009
- 1792: July 21, 1792 – Made rasp, & curran jam, & jelly.
- 1791: July 21, 1791 – My broad beans are just come in.
- 1789: July 21, 1789 – Anthericum ossifragum, Lancashire asphodel, a beautiful plant, found by Mr Barker in bloom among the bogs of Womer forest. Monotropa Hypobithys blossoms on the hanger. Thistles begin to blow. The naked part of the hanger is now covered with thistles; but mostly with the carduus lanceolatus. There are also the carduus nutans, the musk thistle; carduus crispus, the thistle on the thistle; carduus palustris, the marsh-thistle, The seeds of these thistles may have lain probably under the thick shade of the beeched for many Years; but could not vegetate till the sun & air were admitted.
- 1788: July 21, 1788 – Began to cut my meadow-grass. Farmer Parsons begins wheat-harvest in the Ewel; farmer Hewet at the forest-side. A young man brings a large waps nest, found in my meadow.
- 1787: July 21, 1787 – Vast crop of goose-berries: white currans very fine.
- 1785: July 21, 1785 – Heavy showers. Ponds fill.
- 1783: July 21, 1783 – Lapwings flock. Lark-spur figures.
- 1782: July 21, 1782 – Artichokes come in. Wood-strawberries over.
- 1781: July 21, 1781 – The planet Mars figures every evening & makes a golden & spendid shew. This planet being in opposition to the sun, is now near us, & consequently bright.
- 1780: July 21, 1780 – The late orange, & the white lilies blowing together, make a fine show.
- 1777: July 21, 1777 – My building is interrupted to by the rain.
- 1776: July 21, 1776 – Missle thrushes bring forth their broods, & flock together.
- 1775: July 21, 1775 – Opened the crop of a swift, & found it filled with the wing-cases & legs &c. of small coleoptera. Hence it is plain the coleoptera soar high in the air.
- 1773: July 21, 1773 – A bunting, emberiza alba, sitting about on the bushes in the North field. Probably has a nest there. This is a very rare bird in this parish: a very common one in the open champain country. I am not sure that I ever saw one before in Selborne.
- 1772: July 21, 1772 – Heavy clouds around. Roads are dusty.
- 1771: July 21, 1771 – Considerable rain in the night. Frogs continue to migrate from the ponds.
- 1770: July 21, – Cut first melon. Apis longicornis carries wax on it’s thighs into it’s hole in the walks: in this wax it deposits it’s eggs. Cocked the hay in large cocks. Martins tread in their nest, & flie out one on the back of the other.
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