August 29, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 29th, 1774
Gathered the first plate of peaches: ripe but not high-flavoured. First bleached endive.
August 23, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 23rd, 1774
Missel-thrushes congregate & are very wild. Thistle-down floats. Thompson, who makes this appearance a circumstance attendant on his summer evening,
“Wide o’er the thistly lawn, as swells the breeze,/A whitening shower of vegetable down/Amusive floats…”
seems to have misapplyed it as to the season: since thistles which do not blow ’til the summer-solstice, cannot shed their down ’til autumn.
August 18, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 18th, 1774
Two swifts were seen again on this day at Fyfield: none afterwards. Two last swifts seen at Blackburn in Lancashire.
August 17, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 17th, 1774
Wheat harvest general. Large sea-gulls.
August 15, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 15th, 1774
Showers & sun. Meonstoke a sweet district.
August 12, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 12th, 1774
Fly-catchers bring out young broods. Mich. daisy blows. Apricots ripen. Some martins, dispossessed of their nests by sparrows, return to them again when their enemies are shot, & breed in them. Several pairs of martins have not yet brought forth their first brood. They meet with interruptions, & leave their nests.
August 11, 1774
Posted by sydney on Aug 11th, 1774
One of my vines looks pale & sickly. Ivy budds for bloom: it blows in Octr & Novr. and the fruit ripens in April.
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