Posted by sydney on Jun 19th, 2009
- 1792: June 19, 1792 – Pinks, scarlet-lychnis, & fraxinellas blow. The narrow-leaved blue Iris, called Xiphium, begins to blow.
- 1791: June 19, 1791 – A flock of ravens about the hager for many days.
- 1788: June 19, 1788 – Muscae domesticae swarm in every room. I have often heard my Brothers complain how much they were annoyed with flies at this place. They are destroyed by a poisonous water called fly-water, set in basons, & by bird-lime twigs laid across pans of water.
- 1786: June 19, 1786 – My brother’s gardeners plant-out annuals. The ground is well moistened. They prick-out young cabbages, celeri, &c.
- 1785: June 19, 1785 – Most of our oaks are naked of leaves, & even the Holt in general, having been ravaged by the caterpillars of a small phalaena, which is of a pale, yellow colour. These Insects tho’ a feeble race, yet from their infiinite numbers are of wonderful effect, being able to destroy the foliage of whole forests, & districts. At this season they leave their aurelia, & issue forth in their fly-state, swarming & covering the trees, & hedges. In a field at Greatham a saw a flight of Swifts busied in catching their prey near the ground; & found they were hawking after these phalenae. The aurelia of this moth is shining, & as black as jet; it lies wrapped-up in a leaf of the tree, which is rolled round it, & secured at the ends by a web, to preven the maggot from falling-out.
- 1783: June 19, 1783 – Vast crops of cherlock among the spring-corn.
- 1781: June 19, 1781 – A strange swarm of bees came and settled on my Balm of Gilead fir.
- 1780: June 19, 1780 – Dust well-laid on the road. Barley in ear on the sands. Much upland-hay mowed near London.
- 1779: June 19, 1779 – Farmer Turner cut my great meadow. He bought the crop. Wood-strawberries begin to ripen.
- 1778: June 19, 1778 – My garden is much bound up, & chopped. Annuals languish from lack of moisture.
- 1774: June 19, 1774 – Bees frequent my chimneys: they certainly extract somewhat from the soot, the pitchy part, I suppose.
- 1772: June 19, 1772 – Vast fog, hot sun. Thermotmr abroad in the shade 78. John White arrived from Cadiz.
- 1771: June 19, 1771 – Swifts sit, & come out of an evening to feed for a few minutes.
Posted by sydney on Jun 18th, 2009
- 1792: June 18, 1792 – The spotted Bantam hen brings out seven chickens. Took a black birds nest the third time: the young were fledged, & flew out of the nest at a signal given by the old ones.
- 1791: June 18, 1791 – Pricked out more celeri in my garden, & Mr. Burbery’s. Planted some cabbages from Dr Chandeler’s. Timothy hides himself during this wintry weather. The dry weather lasted just 3 weeks & 3 days; part of which was very sultry, & part very cold.
- 1788: June 18, 1788 – Neither the pease or beans have the same flavour, & sweetness as in moist summers.
- 1787: June 18, 1787 – A pair of fly-catchers build in my vines. The late frost did much damage at Fyfield, but little or none at Selborne. My potatoes, kidney-beans, & nasturtiums were not injured: some balsoms, that touched the glasses, were scorched.
- 1785: June 18, 1785 – The yew-hedges at the vicarage half-killed by the winter. My tall hedges are much injured by the severity of last winter: many boughs are killed, & the foliage in general is thin.
- 1782: June 18, 1782 – Apis longicornis swarms in my walk down Baker’s hill, & bores the ground full of holes, both in the grass, & brick-walk. Peat begins to be brought in. On this day there was a great thunder-storm in London. Probably much rain fell this day at some distance to the S.W. While the thunder was about, the stone pavement in some parts of the entry & kitchen sweated & stood in drops of water. The farmers say, that the chafers, which abound in some parts, fall off the hedges & the trees on the sheeps backs, where being entangled in the wooll they die, & being blown by flies, fill the sheep with maggots. The epidemic disorder rages in an alarming manner in our fleet. Sr John L. Ross has left the N. sea, & is returned to the downs, not being able to continue his cruize on account of the general sickness of his crews.
- 1781: June 18, 1781 – The st foin is in a bad way about the neighbourhood.
- 1774: June 18, 1774 – Variable winds, & clouds flying different ways. Ricked the St foin, four jobbs. Rather under made, but not at all damaged by the rain. It was made in swarth, & lay 8 days.
* Most birds drink sipping a little at a time: but pigeons take a long continued draught like quadrupeds. Some swallows build down the mouths of the chalk draught-holes on Faringdon-common. House-martins retire to rest pretty soon: they roost in their nest as soon as ever it is big enough to contain them. Martins build the shell of a nest frequently, & then forsake it, & build a new one.
- 1773: June 18, 1773 – Some ears of wheat begin to appear. Measles epidemic to a wonderful degree: whole families down at a time. Several children that had been reduced by the whooping-cough dyed of them.
- 1772: June 18, 1772 – Thomas cut my St foin.
Posted by sydney on Jun 17th, 2009
- 1792: June 17, 1792 – When the servants are gone to bed, the kitchen-hearth swarms with minute crickets not so big as fleas. The Blattae are almost subdued by the persevering assiduity of Mrs J. W. who waged war with them for many months, & destroyed thousands: at first she killed some hundreds every night. The thermometer at George’s fields Surrey 82: on the 21, — 51. St foin fly, sphynx filipendulae, appears.
- 1791: June 17, 1791 – Planted out my annuals from Dan Wheeler. Pricked out some celeri, good pants. My crop of spinnage is just over: the produce from a pint of seed, sowed the first week in August, was prodigious.
- 1789: June 17, 1789 – Cauliflowers. The Opera-house in the Hay-market burnt down.
- 1788: June 17, 1788 – Cherries turn colour, & begin to be eatable; but are small for want of moisture: are netted. A cat gets down the pots of a neighbour’s chimney after the Swallows nests.
- 1783: June 17, 1783 – The potatoe-shoots, that were cut-down by the frost, all spring again; the kidney-beans do not. Lighted a fire in the parlor.
- 1777: June 17, 1777 – My building is interrupted by the rain.
- 1776: June 17, 1776 – Snails begin to engender, & some flew to lay eggs: hence it is matter of consequence to destroy them before midummer.
- 1772: June 17, 1772 – In Wilts.
Bror. John set-out on horse-back for Cadiz. Polygonum bistorta. Colchicum autumnale in seed. Ephemera and phrygeaneae abound on the stream.
- 1771: June 17, 1771 – Tearing wind which damaged all the gardens.
- 1768: June 17, 1768 – Wheat that was lodged rises again.
Posted by sydney on Jun 16th, 2009
- 1792: June 16, 1792 – Planted some hand-glass plants in the frames of the fruiting cucumber-bed: cut down the lining, & worked it up with some grass-mowings. Some young fly-catchers are out, & fed by their dams.
- 1791: June 16, 1791 – Snails come out of hedges after their long confinement from the drought. A swallow in Tanner’s chimney has hatched. The fern on the forest is killed; but hardly touched by the frost on Selborne down, which is 400 feet higher than Wolmer.
- 1790: June 16, 1790 – My brother finishes a large rick of hay in very nice order.
- 1784: June 16, 1784 – Phallus impudicus, a stink-pot comes up in Mr. Burbey’s asparagus-bed. Received a Hogsh: of port-wine, imported at Southampton.
- 1782: June 16, 1782 – This hot weather makes the tortoise so alert that he traverses all the garden by six o’clock in the morning. When the sun grows very powerful he retires under a garden-mat, or the shelter of some cabbage; not loving to be about in vehement heat. In such weather, he eats greedily.
- 1781: June 16, 1781 – My garden in nice order, & full of flowers in bloom. Lilies, roses, fraxinellas, red valerians, Iris’s, &c., now make a gaudy show.
- 1774: June 16, 1774 – Fern-owl chatters in the hanger.
- 1773: June 16, 1773 – Sheep are shorn.
- 1771: June 16, 1771 – Tempestuous wind & vast rain for 28 hours.
- 1769: June 16, 1769 – The less reed-sparrow, passer arundinaceus minor Raii, sings sweetly, imitating the notes of several birds: it haunts near waters, & sings all night long. Cold weather: nothing grows well. St foin wants to be cut. A distinct lunar rain-bow.
Posted by sydney on Jun 15th, 2009
- 1793: June 15, 1793 – Men wash their sheep. Mr. John Muslo left us.
- 1792: June 15, 1793 – Beat the banks; & planted cabbages in the meadow-garden.
- 1791: June 15, 1791 – The kidney-beans at Newton-house not touched by the late frost. Bror. Thomas left us.
- 1788: June 15, 1788 – A double scarlet Pomegranade buds for bloom. A bunting appears about the walks: this is a very rare bird at Selborne. The solstitial chafers swarm by thousands in my Brother’s grounds. They begin to flie about sun-set, but withdraw soon after nine, & probably settle on the trees, to feed & to engender. My chamber at S. Lambeth is much annoyed with gnats.
- 1787: June 15, 1787 – Field-pease in fine bloom. Many swifts at Wansworth, Kingston, Cobham, &c. Hay-making general about London; some meadow hay cut at Farnham.
- 1782: June 15, 1782 – Hung-out my pendent meat-safe. The martins over the garden-door have thrown-out two eggs; they had not been sat on. A pair of partriges haunt Baker’s hill, & dust themselves along the verge of the brick walk. Many people droop with this feverish cold: not only women & children, but robust labourers. In general the disorder does not last long, neither does it prove at all mortal in these parts.
- 1780: June 15, 1780 – Vivid aurora to the W.
- 1775: June 15, 1775 – Tremendous thunder, & vast hail yesterday at Bramshot, & Hedley with prodigious floods. Vast damage done. The hail lay knee-deep. The shell-snail has hardly appeared at all this season on account of the long dry time. Snails copulate about Midsumr; & soon after deposit their eggs in the mould by running their heads & bodies under ground. Hence the way to be rid of them is to kill as many as possible before they begin to breed. In six weeks after wheat is in ear, harvest usually begins; unless delayed by cold, wet, black weather.
- 1774: June 15, 1774 – There seem to be more hirundines, particularly house-martins, & swifts, about Midhurst than with us.
- 1773: June 15, 1773 – Great rains in the night. Planted-out a bed of Savoys. No apples or pears.
- 1772: June 15, 1772 – Carduus nutans. Digitalis purpurea. Sheep shorn.
- 1771: June 15, 1771 – Bar: falls all day. Wheat-ears peep. St foin begins to be cut.
- 1769: June 15, 1769 – The bank-martin brings out its young: they were so helpless that we took one as it sate on a rail. Young swallows appear
Posted by sydney on Jun 14th, 2009
- 1793: June 14, 1793 – Cut four cucumbers. Mr. John Muslo came.
- 1791: June 14, 1791 – White frost, dark & cold; covered the kidney beans with straw last night. My annuals, which were left open, much injured by the frost: the balsams, which touched the glass of the light, scorched. Kidney-beans injured, & in some gardens killed. Cucumbers secured by the hand-glasses but they do not grow. The cold weather interrupts the house-martins in their building, & makes them leave their nests unfinished. I have no martins at the end of my brew-house, as usual.
- 1790: June 14, 1790 – Sweet hay-making weather.
- 1789: June 14, 1789 – A patent machine, called a Fire Escape (rather perhaps a ‘Scape fire) was brought along Fleet street. It consisted of a Ladder, perhaps 38 feet in length, which turned on a pivot, so as to be elevated or depressed at will, & was supported on timber frame-work, drawn on wheels. A groove in each rail of this ladder-like construction admitted a box or hutch to be drawn up or let down by a pulley at the top round & by a windlass at bottom. When the ladder is set up against a wall, the person in danger is to escape into the hutch, then drawn to the top. That the ladder may not take fire from any flames breaking out below, it is defended all the way by a sheathing of tin. Several people, it seems, had illiberally refused the Patentee the privilege of trying his machine against their houses: but Mr White, on application, immediately consented; when the ladder was applyed to a sash on the second story, & a man was hoisted up, & let down with great expedition, & safety, & then a couple of boys went together. Some spectators were of opinion that the hutch or box was too scanty or shallow, & for that security it ought to be raised on the sides and lower end by a treillis of strong wire, or iron-work, lest people in terror & confusion should miss of their aim & fall over to the ground. This machine was easily drawn by four men only. The ladder, the owner told us, would reach to a third story, when properly elevated. The name of the Inventor is Mounsieur Dufour.
- 1788: June 14, 1788 – The scarbaei solstitiales begin to swarm in my Brother’s outlet. My Bror this spring turned one of his grass-fields into a kitchen-garden, & sowed it with crops: but the ground so abounded with the maggots of these chafers, that few things escaped their ravages. The lettuces, beans & cabbages were mostly devoured: & yet in trenching this enclosure his people had destroyed multitudes of these noxious grubs. The stalks & ribs of the leaves of the Lombardy polare are embossed with large tumours of an oblong shape, which by incurious observers have been taken for the fruit of the tree. These Galls are full of small insects, some of which are winged, and some not. The parent insect is of the Genus of Cynips. Some poplars of the garden are quite loaded with these excrescencies.
- 1786: June 14, 1786 – About Newton men were cutting their St foin: & all the way towards London their upland meadows, many of which, notwithstanding the drought, produce decent crops. We had a dusty, fatiguing journey. Bro Thos. has made his hay; & his fields are much burnt-up.
- 1785: June 14, 1785 – Fly-catchers have young. Standard honey-suckles beautiful, & very sweet.
- 1782: June 14, 1782 – Ephemerae, may-flies, appear, playing over the streams: their motions are very peculiar, up & down for many yards, almost in a perpendicular line.
- 1781: June 14, 1781 – We have planted-out a vast show of annuals, which will want no watering.
- 1778: June 14, 1778 – White butter-flies unnumerable: woe to the cabbages!
- 1776: June 14, 1776 – I saw two swifts, entangled with each other, fall out of their nest to the ground, from whence they soon rose & flew away. This accident was probably owing to amorous dalliance. Hence it appears that swifts when down can rise again. Swifts seen only morning & evening: the hens probably are engaged all the day in the business of incubation; while the cocks are roving after food down to the forest, & lakes. These birds begin to sit about the middle of this month, & have squab young before the month is out.
- 1775: June 14, 1775 – We just had the skirts of a vast thunder-storm.
- 1774: June 14, 1774 – Swifts stay out ’til within 10 minutes of 9. Ivy-berries fallen-off. Young grasshoppers.
- 1772: June 14, 1772 – Bright, sweet afternoon.
Posted by sydney on Jun 13th, 2009
- 1793: June 13, 1793 – Cut ten cucumbers.
- 1791: June 13, 1791 – Farmer Spencer mows his cow-grass.
- 1790: June 13, 1790 – Aritchokes, & chardons, come into eating. Cucumbers abound.
- 1789: June 13, 1789 – My brother’s barley begins to come into ear. The squirrel is very fond of the cones of various trees. My niece Hannah’s squirrel is much delighted with the fruit of the coniferous trees, such as the pine, the fir, the larch, & the birch; & had it an opportunity would probably be pleased with the cones of alders. As to Scotch firs, Squirrels not only devour the cones, but they also bark large boughs, & gnaw off the tops of the leading shoots; so that the pine-groves belonging to Mr Beckford at Basing-park are much injured & defaced by those little mischievous quadroupeds, which are too subtile, & too nimble to be easily taken, or destroyed. The Cypress-trees, & passion-flowers mostly killed by the late hard winter.
- 1788: June 13, 1788 – The bloom of the vines fills the chambers with an agreeable scent somewhat like that mignonette.
- 1787: June 13, 1787 – The late frost, I find, has done much damage in Hants.
- 1786: June 13, 1786 – Grey, sprinkling, gleams with thunder. Wavy, curdled clouds, like the remains of thunder.
- 1785: June 13, 1785 – Established summer. Corn-flag blows.
- 1784: June 13, 1784 – On this day arrived here from India Mr Charles Etty. In his passage out, the ship he belonged to was burnt off the Island of Ceylon. He came back from Madras to the Cape of good hope in the Exeter man of war; & from thence worked his passage in the Content transport, which brought him to Spit-head. The Exeter was so crazy, & worn-out, that they broke her up, & burnt her at the Cape. Mr Ch Etty brought home two species of Humming-birds which he shot at the Cape of good hope; & two Ostrich eggs from the same place: several fine shells from Joanna island & several turtle’s eggs from the Isle of Ascension. Also the Graphalium squarrosum, a curious Cudweed, from a Dutch-mans garden at the Cape. Turtle’s eggs are round, & white; a little variegated with fine streaks of red, & as large as the eggs of a kite; perhaps larger.
- 1783: June 13, 1783 – Serapias latiflolia begins to bloom in the hanger. The Serapias’s transplanted last summer from the hanger to my garden , grow and thrive. Mr Beeke returned.
- 1782: June 13, 1782 – A house-martin drowned in the water-tub: this accident seems to have been owing to fighting.
- 1781: June 13, 1781 – The house-martins which build in old nests begin to hatch, as may be seen by their throwing-out the egg-shells.
- 1778: June 13, 1778 – Finished laying the floor of my great parlor.
- 1776: June 13, 1776 – Martins begin building at half hour after three in the morning.
- 1775: June 13, 1775 – Red kidney beans begin to climb their sticks. Mulberry-tree in full leaf. Snails copulate.
- 1774: June 13, 1774 – House-martins gather moss, & grasses for their nests from the Roofs of houses.
- 1773: June 13, 1773 – Sanicula europaea. Lysimacha nemorum. Bees swarm. Pease in the fields thrive wonderfully. Thunder.
- 1771: June 13, 1771 – Sphinx filipendula. Emerges from it’s aurelia state. Fixes it’s cods to the dry twigs in hedges; is called in Hants the St foin fly; & is in its crawling state said to be very pernicious to that plant.
Posted by sydney on Jun 12th, 2009
- 1793: June 12, 1793 – Bright, sun, golden even. Cut eight cucumbers. Mrs. Clement & children left us. Many swifts.
- 1792: June 12, 1792 – Mr Burbey has got eleven martins nests under the eaves of his old shop.
- 1791: June 12, 1791 – Clouds, hail, shower, gleams. Sharp air, & fire in the parlor. Showers about. Garden-crops much retarded, & nothing can be planted. Farmer Bridger sends me three real snipe’s eggs: they are in shape, & colour exactly like those of the lapwing, only one half less. The colour of the eggs is a dull yellow, spotted with chocolate: they are blunt at the great end, & taper much till they become sharp at the smaller. The eggs, sent me for snipe’s eggs last year, seem to have been those of a fern-owl.
- 1790: June 12, 1790 – Cauliflowers abound. Pease sold for ten pence the peck.
- 1789: June 12, 1789 – Bror Benjn cuts his grass, clover & rye, a decent burden, but much infested with wild chamomile, vulg: margweed: mayweed.
- 1788: June 12, 1788 – My Brother’s gardener cut his first melon, a Romagna.
- 1787: June 12, 1787 – A poor gardener in this parish who had three acres of kidney-beans, has lost them all by the frost of last week! Hay finely made, & making. The rudiments of the vine-bloom does not seem to be injured by the late frost.
- 1784: June 12, 1784 – Men wash their sheep. Hoed carrots, parsneps, &c. Received 5 gallons & a quart of French brandy from Mr Edmd Woods.
- 1783: June 12, 1783 – Ophrys nidus avis, many in bloom in the hanger, along the side of ye Bostal.
- 1780: June 12, 1780 – Dragon-flies. Bees swarm. Sheep are shorn.
- 1776: June 12, 1776 – Drones abound round the mouth of the hive that is expected to swarm. Sheep are shorn.
- 1774: June 12, 1774 – Odd meteorous circle round the sun, which the common people call a mock sun.
- 1772: June 12, 1772 – St foin blows, & gets very tall.
- 1768: June 12, 1768 – Glow-worms abound. Phallus stinks in the hedges.
Posted by sydney on Jun 11th, 2009
- 1793: June 11, 1793 – A man brought me a large plate of straw-berries, which were crude, & not near ripe. The ground all as hard as iron: we can sow nothing nor plant out.
- 1792: June 11, 1792 – In Alton
Went, & dined with my Brother Benjamin White at Mareland, to which he & his wife were come down for two or three days. We found the house roomy, & good, & abounding with conveniences: the out-door accommodations are also in great abundance, such as a larder, pantry, dairy, laundry, pigeon-house, & good stables. The view from the back front is elegant, commanding sloping meadows thro’ which runs the Wey (the stream from Alton to Farnham) meandering in beautiful curves, & shewing a rippling fall occasioned by a tumbling bay formed by Mr. Sainesbury, who also widened the current. The murmur of this water-fall is heard from the windows. Behind the house next the turnpike are three good ponds, & round the extensive outlet a variety of pleasant gravel walks. Across the meadows the view is bounded by the Holt: but up & down the valley the prospect is diversifyed, & engaging. In short Mareland is a very fine situation, & a very pleasing Gentleman’s seat. I was much amused with the number of Hirundines to be seen from the windows: for besides the several martins and swallows belonging to the house, many Swifts from Farnham range up & down the vale; & what struck me most were forty or firty bank-martins, from the heaths, & sand-hills below, which follow the stream up the meadows, & were the whole day long busied in catching the several sorts of Ephemerae which at this season swarm in the neighbourhood of the waters. The stream below the house abounds with trouts. Nine fine coach-horses were burnt in a stable at Alresford.
- 1791: June 11, 1791 – Male glow-worms, attracted by the light of the candles, come into the parlor. The distant hills look very blue. There was rain on Sunday on many sides of us, to the S. the S.E. & the N.W. at Alton & Odiham a fine shower, & at Emsworth, & at Newbury: & as near us as Kingsley. No may chafers this year with us.
- 1789: June 11, 1789 – Straw-berries cryed about.
- 1788: June 11, 1788 – Some good oats about S. Lambeth.
- 1787: June 11, 1787 – Straw-berries, scarlet, cryed about. Straw-berries dry, & tasteless. Quail calls in the field next to the garden.
- 1786: June 11, 1786 – In Richd Bulter’s garden there is a Fly-catcher’s nest built in a very peculiar manner, being placed on a shelf that is fixed against the wall of an out-house, not five feet from the ground; & behind the head of an old rake lying on the shelf. On the same spot a pair of the same birds built last year; but as soon as there were young the nest was torn down by a cat.
- 1785: June 11, 1785 – My potatoes do but just sprout above ground. Sweet Williams blow. When the hen fly-catcher sits on her eggs, the cock feeds her with great assiduity, even on ’till past nine in the evening.
- 1783: June 11, 1783 – Soft rain all days. Snails come forth in troops. Mr. Beeke came from Oxford.
- 1782: June 11, 1782 – Standard honey-suckles, having lost their first shoots by the frosts, will produce little bloom this summer.
- 1780: June 11, 1780 – Field-pease look well. All the young rooks ave not left their nest-trees. Glow-worms appear.
- 1778: June 11, 1778 – Cut my St foin, the 11th crop. Weeds obtain much, & the crop grows thinner every year.
- 1777: June 11, 1777 – From the egg-shells flung-out it appears that young martins are hatched in a nest built last year. The curcumstance of the ready-built nest makes the brood so much the forwarder.
- 1775: June 11, 1775 – The autumn-sown brown lettuces, which stood the winter, still continue good. The dry season last friday morning had lasted just 3 months: the 9, 10, & 11 of March were very wet.
- 1773: June 11, 1773 – Elder begins to blow. When the elder blows-out the summer is at its height.
- 1770: June 11, 1770 – Hinds on Bagshot-heath.
- 1769: June 11, 1769 – Great species of bat appears; it flies very high. The fern-own begins chattering just at three quarters after 8 o’clock at night.
Posted by sydney on Jun 10th, 2009
- 1793: June 10, 1793 – Cut five cucumbers.
- 1792: June 10, 1792 – Began to use green goose-berries.
- 1789: June 10, 1789 – Rye in ear. Green pease at supper, a large dish. Young Cygnets on the Mole reiver at Cobham. Hay made, & carrying at Wandsworth. Roses, & sweet-briars beginning to blow in my brother’s outlet.
- 1787: June 10, 1787 – The gale rises, & falls with the sun. Levant weather. Some house-martins at Stockwell-chappel.
- 1786: June 10, 1786 – Men have a fine season for their turnip-fields, which work very well, & are well pulverized.
- 1785: June 10, 1785 – The late severe winter, & spring seem to have destroyed most of the black snails. Planted-out all the annuals in general down Baker’s hill, & in the garden. The plants are strong, & vigorous, & the season very favourable; the earth is well moistened, & the weather warm, still, shady, & dripping.
- 1784: June 10, 1784 – Sold my St foin again to Timothy Turner; it looks well, & is in bloom. The 17th crop. The buyer is to cut it when he pleases.
- 1783: June 10, 1783 – Wych-elm sheds it’s seeds, which are innumerable.
- 1780: June 10, 1780 – Fraxinells begin to blow. Wheat-ears begin to shoot-out.
- 1778: June 10, 1778 – Full moon. Sweet summer’s day. The laburnums are in bloom, & high beauty. Wheat begins to push a few ears.
- 1777: June 10, 1777 – The ground chops & bakes very hard.
- 1776: June 10, 1776 – No one that has not attended to such matters, & taken down remarks, can be aware how much ten days dripping weather will influence the growth of grass or corn after a severe dry season. This present summer 1776 yields a remarkable instance: for ’til the 30th of May the fields were burnt-up & naked, & the barley not half out of the ground; but now, June 10t there is an agreeable prospect of plenty. A very intelligent Clergyman assured me, that hearing while he was a young student at the University, of toads being found alive in blocks of stone, & solids bodies of trees; he one long vacation took a toad, & put it in a garden-pot, & laying a tile over the mouth of the pot, buried it five feet deep in the ground in his father’s garden. in about 13 months he dug-up the imprisoned reptile, & found it alive & well, & considerably grown. He buried it again as at first, & on a second visit at about the same period found it circumstanced as before. He then deposited the pot as formerly a third time, only laying the tile so as not quite to cover the whole of its mouth: but when he came to examine it again next year, the toads was gone. he each time trod the earth down very hard over the pot.
- 1775: June 10, 1775 – Shower in the night. Planted-out vast quantities of annuals both in the borders, & basons; both in the fields, & gardens.
- 1774: June 10, 1774 – Young broods of moor-hens appear. Lettuces that stood the winter are very fine. Cut my St. foin: it is in full bloom, & a good crop: this is the seventh crop…. swifts have eggs, but do not sit. Do they lay more than two?
- 1772: June 10, 1772 – Brisk wind all day which falls with the sun.
- 1771: June 10, 1771 – Small rain in the night. Ephemera cauda biseta. The angler’s may-fly. Myriads of may-flies appear for the first time on the Alresford stream. The air was crowded with them, & the surface of the water covered. Large trouts sucked them in as they lay struggling on the surface of the stream, unable to rise till their wings were dryed. This appearance reconciled me in some measure to the wonderful account that Scopoli gives of the quantities emerging from the rivers of Carniola. See his Entomologia.
- 1769: June 10, 1769 – Young hedge-hogs. Wood-strawberries.
- 1768: June 10, 1768 – The nightingale, having young, leaves off singing, & makes a plaintive & a jarring noise.
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