October 15

Posted by sydney on Oct 15th, 2007
  • 1791: October 15, 1791 – Bro. Ben, & wife Hannah came.  Woodcock, & red wings return, & are seen.
  • 1790: October 15, 1790 – Gathered in the royal russets, & the nonpareils, a few of each.  Gathered the berberries.
  • 1789: October 15, 1789 – Mackerel sky.  A wheat-ear seen on the down.
  • 1788: October 15, 1788 – Vast quntities of gossamer: the fields are covered with it: “slow thro’ the air/The gossamer-floats; or stretch’d from blade to blade/ The wavy net-work whitens all the fields.”
  • 1786: October 15, 1786 – Prodigious damage appears to be done by the late tempests, all over the kingdom; & in many places abroad.
  • 1785: October 15, 1785 – Hay lies about in Berkshire & Oxforshire.
  • 1783: October 15, 1783 – Nep. Harry Woods left me, & went to Funtington.
  • 1780: October 15, 1780 – The cause, occasion, call it what you will, of fairy-rings, subsists in the turf, & is conveyable with it: for the turf of my garden-walks, brought from the down above, abounds with those appearances, which vary their shape, & shift situation now in segments, & sometimes in irregular patches, the seeds of which were doubtless also brought in the turf.  Hunter’s moon.  Much lightening, & thunder.  This storm did much damage at Hammersmith, Putney, Wandsworth, &c. in the Isle of Wight, & at Plymouth, &c. &c.  This stomr did great damage in the isl of Wight, Lancashire, & at Torbay where our fleet of observation lay, & over on the coast of France near Brest: & was part of the hurricane which occasioned such horrible devastations in the W. Indies.
  • 1776: October 15, 1776 – My largest wall-nut tree produced four bushels & a half of nuts many bunches contained 8, 9, & on to 15 wallnuts each.
  • 1775: October 15, 1775 – Mr Barker writes word that in Sep. last there fell in the county of Rutland near six inch. & 1/2 of rain.  The beeches on the hanger, & the maples in my fields are now beautifully tinged, & afford a lovely picturesque scape, very engaging to the imagination.
  • 1769: October 15, 1769 – Hedge sparrow whistles.  Sprinkling rain.  Three martins appear, & settle under the eaves of the stable.

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