June 5

Posted by sydney on Jun 5th, 2009
  • 1793: June 5, 1793 – Men’s St foin burns, & dies away.  The farmers on the sands complain that they have no grass.
  • 1792: June 5, 1792 – One Fly-catcher builds in the Virginia Creeper, over the garden-door: & one in the vine over the parlor-window. Between Newton & us we heard three Fern-owls chattering on the hill; one at the side of the High-wood, one at the top of the Bostal, & one near the Hermitage. That at the top of the Bostal is heard distinctly in my orchard. Fern-owls haunt year by year nearly the same spots.
  • 1791: June 5, 1791 – Elder, & corn-flags begin to blow already.  Thunder to the S.E., N.E., & N.W.  Gardens, & fields suffer.
  • 1789: June 5, 1789 – Sowed some white cucumber-seeds from S. Lambeth under an hand-glass.  Moon-shine.
  • 1787: June 5, 1787 – The tortoise took his usual ramble, & could not be confined within the limits of the garden. His pursuits, which seem to be of the amorous kind, transport him beyond the bounds of his usual gravity at this season. He was missing for some days, but found at last near the upper malt-house.
  • 1785: June 5, 1785 – Dame’s violets blow, & are very double.
  • 1784: June 5, 1784 – Much damage done to the corn, grass & hops by the hail; & many windows broken! Vast flood at Gracious street! vast flood at Kaker bridge! Nipped-off all the rose-buds on the tree in the yard opposite the parlor window in order to make a bloom in the autumn. No bloom succeeded.
  • 1783: June 5, 1783 – Hops are very lousy, & want a good shower.  Washed the cherry-trees against the wall with a white-wash brush:  they are full of aphides, but have a vast crop of fruit.
  • 1782: June 5, 1782 – My Bror. Thomas White nailed-up several large ‘scallop shells under the eaves of his house at South Lambeth, to see if the house-martins would build in them.  These conveniences had not been fixed half an hour, before several pairs settled upon them;  &, expressing great complacency, began to build immediately.  The shells were nailed on horizontally with the hollow side upward;  & should, I think, have a hole drilled in their bottoms to letoff moisture from driving rains.
  • 1776: June 5, 1776 – Boys bring me female-wasps.  Apis longicornis bores it’s nests & copulates.
  • 1774: June 5, 1774 – The swallows pursue the magpies & buffet them.  Wall-fruit swells.

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