June 2
Posted by sydney on Jun 2nd, 2009
- 1793: June 2, 1793 – Bror. Benjn. & I measured my tall beech in Sparrow’s hanger, which, at five feet from the ground, girths six feet one inch, and three quarters.
- 1792: June 2, 1792 – Mushrooms are brought to the door.
- 1788: June 2, 1788 – Mr. Edmd. White, & Captain Dumaresque cut their Saint foin.
- 1787: June 2, 1787 – Hay is making at Vaux-hall.
- 1785: June 2, 1785 – Abram Loe came. My well is very low.
- 1782: June 2, 1782 – Mr. Pink is obliged to leave 26 acres of barley-ground unsown. Feverish colds begin to be very freqent in this neighbourhood, & indeed the country over. Within the bills of mortality this disorder is quite epidemic, so that hardly an individual escapes. This complaint seems to have originated in Russia, & to have extended all over Europe. The great inclemency of the spring may best account for this universal malady.
- 1781: June 2, 1781 – Tulips are gone. The heat injures the flowers in bloom. St foin in full bloom. Fly-catcher has five eggs.
- 1780: June 2, 1780 – Finished papering my great parlor.
- 1776: June 2, 1776 – Sultry, & heavy clouds. Smell of sulphur in the air. Paid for near 20 wasps: several were breeders; but some were workers, hatched perhaps this year.
- 1774: June 2, 1774 – Finished tacking the vines for the first time. Planted-out annuals in theh basons down the field.
- 1773: June 2, 1773 – Lampyris noctiluca. Thunder & lightening & moderate rain half the inght. The corn & grass & gardens look well after ye rain.
- 1770: June 2, 1770 – Many sorts of dragon-flies appear for the first time. Swifts devour the small dragon-flies as they first take their flight from out their aurelias, which are lodged on the weeds of ponds. Chafers are eaten by the turkey, the rook, & the house-sparrow.
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