February 4
Posted by sydney on Feb 4th, 2009
- 1793: February 4, 1793 – Venus is very bright, & shadows.
- 1792: February 4, 1792 – Spring-like: crocus blows: gossamer floats: musca tenax comes forth: blackbird whistles.
- 1791: February 4, 1791 – Benham finished mending the hedges.
- 1789: February 4, 1789 – Green rye has a delicate soft tinge in its colour, distinguishable from that of wheat at a considerable distance.
- 1788: February 4, 1788 – Bror. Thomas left us, & went to London.
- 1786: February 4, 1786 – Sowed a good coat of ash on Baker’s hill, & also on the great meadow. Bought 40 bushels of ashes of Mrs Etty, & 36 bushels of sundry others. Sowed my own also.
- 1785: February 4, 1785 – Arbutus’s, Cypresses, Ilex’s seem to be dead: even Portugal-laurels are injured, & Cedars of Libanus, American, & Swedish Junipers, & firs, Scotch & Spruce untouched.
- 1784: February 4, 1784 – Hard frosts. Paths thaw. Fleecy clouds. Sky muddled. Halo.
- 1780: February 4, 1780 – Wag-tails appear about the streams thro’ all the severe weather.
- 1773: February 4, 1773 – Larks congregate.
- 1772: February 4, 1772 – Considerable driving snow in the night, which powdered the trees & woods in a most beautiful, & and romantic manner. Ground all covered.
- 1769: February 4, 1769 – Fog, rain, sun, grey. Hedge sparrows sing vehemently.
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