February 25, 1768
Posted by sydney on Feb 25th, 1768
The missel-thrush, turdus viscivorus major (called in Hants & Sussex the stormcock) sings.
February 24, 1768
Posted by sydney on Feb 24th, 1768
Cucumber plants thrive, and show their claspers.
February 23, 1768
Posted by sydney on Feb 23rd, 1768
Great rain. Prodigious floods in Yorkshire, which have swept away all the bridges.
February 15, 1768
Posted by sydney on Feb 15th, 1768
Cucumber plants show two rough leaves. Forward turneps rot. Evergreens appear more damaged than at first was imagined, especially those in sunny aspects. Bees gather on ye winter aconite. Arbutus but little damaged by the frost. Ilex much hurt. Hollies, pinched by the frost, cast their leaves. Laurustinus killed to the ground.
February 1, 1768
Posted by sydney on Feb 1st, 1768
Jack-daw, monedula, chatters on churches. Went to London.
January 28, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jan 28th, 1768
Sowed more cucumber seeds. Fringillado, great titmouse, begins some of his spring notes. Pricked out the cucumbers.
January 21, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jan 21st, 1768
Ananas budding for bloom. First crop of kidney-beans gather’d in the Hothouse at Hartley.
January 12, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jan 11th, 1768
A cock-pheasant appeared on the dunghill at the end of my stable; tamed by hunger. Laurustines appear as if scorched in the fire. Portugal laurel, red American Juniper untouched. Nuthatch, sitta, chatters. Garden-plants were well preserved under the snow. Turneps in general little damaged. Wheat, being secured by the snow, looks finely.
January 9, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jan 9th, 1768
Lambs begin to fall. Nothing frozen in my cellar. Titmice pull straws from the eaves.
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