June 1
Posted by sydney on Jun 1st, 2009
- 1793: June 1, 1793 – Timothy is very voracious: when he can get no other food he eats grass in the walks.
- 1792: June 1, 1792 – Mr. & Mrs. Ben White left us, & went to Newton.
- 1791: June 1, 1791 – Fern-owl, & chur-worm jar. Men wash their fatting sheep; & bay the stream to catch trouts. Trouts come up our shallow streams almost to the spring-heads to lay their spawn.
- 1789: June 1, 1789 – Monks rhubarb seven feet high; makes a noble appearance in bloom.
- 1787: June 1, 1787 – Some fly-catchers: but they do not yet begin to build. Carrots drawn.
- 1786: June 1, 1786 – Potted nine tall balsams, & put the potts in a sunk bed. Dragon-flies have been out some days. The oaks in many places are infested with caterpillars of the Phalaena quercus to such a degree as to be quite naked of leaves. These palmer-worms hang down from the trees by long threads. The apple-trees at Faringdon are annoyed by an other set of caterpillars that strip them of all their foliage. My hedges are also damaged by the caterpillars.
- 1784: June 1, 1784 – The single white thorn over the ash-house is one vast globe of blossoms down to the ground. Laburnums, berberries, &c. covered with bloom. Peonies in flower.
- 1783: June 1, 1783 – The late frost cut-down the fern, & scorched many trees. Wheat spindles for ear.
- 1781: June 1, 1781 – Grass-walks burn very much. Ground chops. Roses begin to blow. Wheat spindles for ear.
- 1780: June 1, 1780 – Distant clouds, sultry, thunder-clouds. Sulphurous smell in the air. Sweet, even, small shower. Strawberries blow well. Medlar shows much bloom. Honey-suckles blow. Fern-owl chatter: chur-worm jars. The tortoise shuns the intense heat by covering itself with dead grass; & does not eat ’til the afternoon. Terrible storms in the Oxfordshire, & my Wilts.
- 1779: June 1, 1779 – In Mr. Richardson’s garden ripe scarlet strawberries every day; large artichokes, pease, radishes, beans just at hand. Bramshot soil is a warm, sandy loam. Small cauliflowers. Wheat shoots into ear. Barley & peas are good on the sands. The sands by liming, & turniping produce as good corn as the clays.
Many large edible chestnut-trees which grew on the turnpike road near Bramshot-place were cut this spring for repairs: but they are miserbaly shaky, & make wretched timber. They are not only shaky, but what the workmen call cup-shakey, coming apart in great plugs, & round pieces as big as a man’s leg. The timber is grained like oak, but much softer. - 1776: June 1, 1776 – Dames violets, double, blow finely: roses bud: tulips gone: pinks bud. Bees begin to swarm. Tacked the vines the first time. Began to plant out annuals in the basons in the field. Ponds & some wells begin to be dry.
- 1775: June 1, 1775 – Martin begins to build at the end of the brewhouse.
- 1774: June 1, 1774 – Planted vast rows of China-asters in the Garden.
- 1773: June 1, 1773 – Field cricket sings: sings all night.
- 1770: June 1, 1770 – St. foin is large, & thick, & lodged by the rain.
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