October 21
Posted by sydney on Oct 21st, 2008
- 1790: October 21, 1790 – I conclude that the Holiburne trufler finds encouragement in our woods, & hangers, as he frequently passes along the village: he is a surly fellow, & not communicative. He is attended by two little cur-dogs, which he leads in a string.
- 1789: October 21, 1789 – Woodcock seen on the down, among the fern. Finished gathering the apples, many of which are fair fruit. Shoveled the zigzag. Leaves fall. My wall-nut trees, & some ashes are naked.
- 1787: October 21, 1787 – William Dewye Senr. who is now living, has been a certificate man at Selborne since the year 1729, some time in the month of April. He is a parishioner at the town of Wimborn-Minster at the County of Dorset.
- 1785: October 21, 1785 – Timothy the tortoise lies in the laurel-hedge, but is not buried.
- 1784: October 21, 1784 – This day at 4 o’clock P: M: Edmd White launched an air-balloon from Selborne-down, measuring about 8 feet & 1/2 in length, & sixteen feet in circumference. It went off in a steady, & grand manner to the E, & settled in about 15 minutes near Todmoor on the verge of the forest.
- 1783: October 21, 1783 – Nasturtiums in high bloom, & untouched by the frost!
- 1781: October 21, 1781 – The distress for water in many places is great. A notion has always obtained, that in England hot summers are productive of fine crops of wheat: yet in the years 1780, and 1781, tho’ the heat was intense, the wheat was much mildewed, & the crop light. Quaere, Does not severe heat, while the straw is milky, occasion it’s juices to exsude, which being extravasted, occasion spots, discolour the stems & blades, & injure the health of the plants? The heat of the two last summers has scalded & scorched the stems of the wall-fruit trees, & has fetched-off the bark.
- 1776: October 21, 1776 – A cock pheasant flew over my house, & across the village to the hanger.
- 1775: October 21, 1775 – The storm on thursday night tore all the remaining flowers to pieces. *With us the country people call coppices, or brush-wood, ris, or rice: now hris in Saxon signifies frondes, & is no doubt whence our provincial term originates. Hraed hriz is frondes celeres: hence probably Red Rice, the name of a hunting-seat standing in the midst of a coppice at Andover.
- 1773: October 21, 1773 – No swallows or martins observed.
- 1772: October 21, 1772 – Under the eaves of a neighbourning house is a martin’s nest full of young ready to flie. The old ones hawk for flies with great alertness.
- 1769: October 21, 1769 – Merulae torquatae still about: the abound more, & stay longer than in former autumns. Oedicnemus clamours very loudly. Leaves fall apace. Barometer falls apace.
- 1768: October 21, 1768 – Swallow.
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