March 4
Posted by sydney on Mar 4th, 2009
- 1793: March 4, 1793 – We are much amused every morning by a string of Lord Stawell’s Hunters that are aired, exercised, & watered in a meadow opposite to the windows of this house. There seem to be two sets, which appear alternately on the days that they are not hunted. He has in all sixteen.
- 1790: March 4, 1790 – Timothy the tortoise comes forth: he does not usually appear ’till the middle of April.
- 1785: March 4, 1785 – New worked up, & mended the garden-lights broken by the hail last summer.
- 1783: March 4, 1783 – Snow on the ground 4 or 5 inc. deep. Snow melts on sunny roofs.
- 1774: March 4, 1774 – Daws resort to churches.
- 1773: March 4, 1773 – Pulmonaria oficianalis. Papilio rhamni.
- 1771: March 4, 1771 – Great distress among the flocks; the turneps are all rotten. The ewes have little milk, & the lambs all die.
- 1770: March 4, 1770 – Chrysopenium oppsitifolium. Rooks seem to have finished new nests. Crocuss make a gay appearance.
- 1769: March 4, 1769 – Spring day. Young chickens. Crocuss makes a gallant shew.
Notes:
Chrysopenium oppsitifolium— Golden Saxifrage. Pulmonaria officianalis— Lungwort. Papilio Rhamni, the Brimstone Butterfly– a photo of Linnaeus’ own specimen.
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