May 13, 1787

Posted by sydney on May 13th, 1787

Ice at Nore-hill.  Tulips make a show.

May 12, 1787

Posted by sydney on May 12th, 1787

House martin appears: only one.

May 10, 1787

Posted by sydney on May 10th, 1787

Farmer Spencer’s orchard in fine bloom.

May 7, 1787

Posted by sydney on May 7th, 1787

The large white pippin-tree full of bloom.  No house-martin seen yet!

May 6, 1787

Posted by sydney on May 6th, 1787

Timothy, the tortoise, who has just begun to eat, weighs 6 ae, 12 1/2 oz.  Agues are much about at Hawkley, & Emshot, & Newton; & in Selborne street.

May 5, 1787

Posted by sydney on May 5th, 1787

Sowed ten weeks stocks, & radishes, & lettuces.

May 4, 1787

Posted by sydney on May 4th, 1787

Sowed a plot of red beet.

May 2, 1787

Posted by sydney on May 2nd, 1787

The foliage of the peach, & nectarine-trees scorched by the winds: the leaves are shrivelled, & blotched.

May 1, 1787

Posted by sydney on May 1st, 1787

Young brown owls.

April 30, 1787

Posted by sydney on Apr 30th, 1787

April 30 was cold & sharp at Rolle; when a number of martins formed two thick clusters on a ledge projecting in front of an house in one of the streets of that town.  They descended gently as they arrived one on another.

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