August 4
Posted by sydney on Aug 4th, 2008
- 1791: August 4, 1791 – Farmer Tull begins to reap wheat. The hop-garden at Kimber’s fails again, & looks black.
- 1789: August 4, 1789 – Sedum Telephim, orpine, & Hypericum Androsaemum, tutsan, growing in Emshot lane leading to Hawkey mill.
- 1784: August 4, 1784 – Skimmed my two pasture-fields.
- 1783: August 4, 1783 – Wheat seems very good. Hops are quite gone. They have some weak side-shoots without any rudiments of bloom.
- 1780: August 4, 1780 – Several broods of blackbirds & thrushes devour the currans, &c.: ’til the wild cherries are eaten they do not annoy the garden.
- 1775: August 4, 1775 – Little wheat housed. Wheat is very fine in general. A young cuckow is hatched every year in some part of Mrs Snooke’s outlet, most usually by red-breasts. No cross-bills this year among the scotch pines. They usually appear about the beginning of July. No fern-owls.
- 1774: August 4, 1774 – Swifts began to withdraw about this time at Blackburn in Lancashire.
- 1772: August 4, 1772 – Young black-caps abound, & eat the rasps. Trimmed the vines of their side-shoots.
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