July 25
Posted by sydney on Jul 25th, 2008
- 1790: July 25, 1790 – Lime trees are fragrant: the golden tassels are beautiful. Dr Chandler tells us that in the south of France, an infusion of the blossoms of the lime-tree, tilia, is in much esteem as a remedy for coughs, hoarseness, fevers, &c., & that at Nismes he saw an avenue of limes that was quite ravaged & torn to pieces by people greedily gathering the bloom, which they dryed & kept for their purposes. Upon the strength of this information we made some tea of lime-blossoms, & found it a very soft, well-flavoured, pleasant, saccharine julep, in taste much resembling the juice of liquorice.
- 1789: July 25, 1789 – No garden-beans gathered yet. Threw the hay in the meadows into large cocks. The lime-trees with their golden tassels make a most beautiful show. Hops throw out their side branches, which are to bear the fruit. Cran-berries at bin pond not ripe. Hog pease are hacking at Oakhanger.
- 1786: July 25, 1786 – Pease are hacked: rye is reaping: turnips thrive & are hoing.
- 1785: July 25, 1785 – Boys bring the sixth & seventh wasp’s nest. My Nep. Edmd White sends me some fine wall-nuts for pickling. The trees at Newton were not at all touched by the severity of last winter; while mine were so damaged that all the bearing twigs were destroyed. My wall-nut trees have this summer pushed out shoots thro’ the old bark, several feet from the extremities of the boughs. While the hen-fly-catcher sits, the cock feeds her all day long: he also pays attention to the former brood, which he feeds at times.
- 1783: July 25, 1783 – Trenched two more rows of celeri in the upper end of the plot by W. Dewey’s: the ground mellow. We plant out the cabbage-kind some few at a time. The boys bring me a large wasp’s nest full of maggots.
- 1781: July 25, 1781 – The crop on my largest Apricot-tree is still prodigious, tho’ in May I pulled off 30, or 40 dozen.
- 1779: July 25, 1779 – Puff-balls come up in my grass-plot, & walks: they came from the common in the turf. There are many fairy-rings in my walks, in these the puff-balls thrive best. The fairy-rings alter & vary in their shape.
- 1778: July 25, 1778 – The water shines in the fallows. Much damage done about London by lightening on July 20.
- 1776: July 25, 1776 – Bees that have not swarmed kill their drones.
- 1774: July 25, 1774 – Grapes very small & backward for want of sun. qu: if they will ripen.
*They did in Octr. - 1773: July 25, 1773 – Some hops much infested with aphides.
- 1772: July 25, 1772 – Wheat turns yellowish. Mercury falls very fast.
- 1768: July 25, 1768 – Cut the first cantelupe-melon.
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