April 5
Posted by sydney on Apr 5th, 2009
- 1793: April 5, 1793 – The air smells very sweet, & salubrious. Men dig their hop-gardens, & sow spring-corn. Cucumber plants show rudiments of fruit. Planted cuttings of currans, & goose-berries. Dug some of the quarters in the garden, & sowed onions, parsnips, radishes, & lettuces. Planted more beans in the meadow. Many flies are out basking in the sun.
- 1792: April 5, 1792 – Wind damages the hedges. Some thatch torn by the wind. Mr White’s tank at Newton runs over, & Capt. Dumaresque’s is near full.
- 1789: April 5, 1789 – Wry-neck pipes. The smallest uncrested wren chirps loudly, & sharply in the hanger.
- 1788: April 5, 1788 – The first radishes failed. After all Mr Charles Etty did not sail fm St Hellens ’till this morning.
- 1784: April 5, 1784 – My crocus’s are in full bloom, & make a most gaudy show. Those eaten-off by the hares last year were not injured.
- 1781: April 5, 1781 – Searched the S.E. end of the hanger for house-martins, but without any success, tho’ many young me assisted. They examined the beechen-shrubs & holes in the steep hanger.
- 1780: April 5, 1780 – The frost injured the bloom of the wall-trees: covered the bloom with boughs of ivy.
- 1774: April 5, 1774 – The ground harrows, & rakes well.
- 1772: April 5, 1772 – Uncrested wren chirps. Barometer falls apace. Ants appear.
- 1770: April 5, 1770 – Mercuralis perennis. Oxalis acetosella. Sour, cold day. Great storms about.
- 1769: April 5, 1769 – Anemone pulsatilla budds. This plant, the pasque flower, which is just emerging and budding for bloom, abounds on the sheep-down just above Streatley in Berks.
- 1768: April 5, 1768 – Luscinia!
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