June 7
Posted by sydney on Jun 7th, 2009
- 1793: June 7, 1793 – Watered well the white poplar at the foot of the bostal. Cut the slope hedge in the Bakers hill. Mrs. Clement, & children came.
- 1791: June 7, 1791 – Heavy thundrous clouds, copious dew. Opened, & slipped-out the superfluous shoots of the artichockes.
- 1791: June 7, 1791 – Hops grow prodigiously, yet are infested with some aphides. Early cabbages turn hard, but boil well. Watered kidney-beans, which come-up well.
- 1790: June 7, 1790 – Went to London by Guilford & Epsom. Spring-corn & grass look well. Hay making near town.
- 1788: June 7, 1788 – Bro. Ben ricked ye hay of eleven acres of ground in delicate order.
- 1787: June 7, 1787 – Ice thick as a crown piece. Potatoes much injured, & whole rows of kidney-beans killed: nasturtiums killed.
- 1783: June 7, 1783 – Tulips are faded. Honey-suckles still in beauty. My columbines are very beautiful: tyed some of the stems with pieces of worsted, to mark them for seed. Planted-out pots of green cucumbers. Dr Derham says, that all cold summers are wet summers: & the reason he gives is that rain is the effect and not the cause of cold. But with all due deference to that great Philosopher, I think, he should rather have said, that most cold summers are dry; For it is certain that sometimes cold summers are dry; as for example, this very summer hitherto: & in the summer 1765 the weather was very dry, & very cool. See Physico-theol: p: 22. Vast honey-dews this week. The reason of these seems to be, that in hot days the effluvia of flowers are drawn-up by a brisk evaporation; and then in the night fall down with the dews, with which they are entangled. This very clammy substance is very grateful to bees, who gather it with great assiduity, but it is injurious to the trees on which it happens to fall, by stopping the pores of the leaves. The greatest quantity falls in still, close weather; beacuse winds disperse it, & copious dews dilute it, & prevent its ill effects. It falls mostly in hazey warm weather.
- 1778: June 7, 1778 – The cucumbers abate in their bearing; & always do at this time of year.
- 1777: June 7, 1777 – The bees gather earnestly from the flowers of the buck-thorn. Tho’ we are exempt from chafers this season round this district; yet between Winchester & Southampton they swarm so as to devour everything; the country stinks of them.
- 1776: June 7, 1776 – Fly-catcher builds. Farmers cut clover for their horses.
- 1775: June 7, 1775 – Watered the wall-trees well this evening with the engine: the leaves are not blotched & bloated this year, but many shoots are shrivelled, & covered with aphides. Plums & pears abound; moderate crop of apples with me. Vine-shoots very forward.
- 1774: June 7, 1774 – Bees swarm and sheep are shorn. My firs did not blow this year.
- 1772: June 7, 1772 – Field-cricket makes its shrilling noise.
- 1770: June 7, 1770 – Poygala vulg. in flower. Mole-cricket churs.
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