June 10
Posted by sydney on Jun 10th, 2009
- 1793: June 10, 1793 – Cut five cucumbers.
- 1792: June 10, 1792 – Began to use green goose-berries.
- 1789: June 10, 1789 – Rye in ear. Green pease at supper, a large dish. Young Cygnets on the Mole reiver at Cobham. Hay made, & carrying at Wandsworth. Roses, & sweet-briars beginning to blow in my brother’s outlet.
- 1787: June 10, 1787 – The gale rises, & falls with the sun. Levant weather. Some house-martins at Stockwell-chappel.
- 1786: June 10, 1786 – Men have a fine season for their turnip-fields, which work very well, & are well pulverized.
- 1785: June 10, 1785 – The late severe winter, & spring seem to have destroyed most of the black snails. Planted-out all the annuals in general down Baker’s hill, & in the garden. The plants are strong, & vigorous, & the season very favourable; the earth is well moistened, & the weather warm, still, shady, & dripping.
- 1784: June 10, 1784 – Sold my St foin again to Timothy Turner; it looks well, & is in bloom. The 17th crop. The buyer is to cut it when he pleases.
- 1783: June 10, 1783 – Wych-elm sheds it’s seeds, which are innumerable.
- 1780: June 10, 1780 – Fraxinells begin to blow. Wheat-ears begin to shoot-out.
- 1778: June 10, 1778 – Full moon. Sweet summer’s day. The laburnums are in bloom, & high beauty. Wheat begins to push a few ears.
- 1777: June 10, 1777 – The ground chops & bakes very hard.
- 1776: June 10, 1776 – No one that has not attended to such matters, & taken down remarks, can be aware how much ten days dripping weather will influence the growth of grass or corn after a severe dry season. This present summer 1776 yields a remarkable instance: for ’til the 30th of May the fields were burnt-up & naked, & the barley not half out of the ground; but now, June 10t there is an agreeable prospect of plenty. A very intelligent Clergyman assured me, that hearing while he was a young student at the University, of toads being found alive in blocks of stone, & solids bodies of trees; he one long vacation took a toad, & put it in a garden-pot, & laying a tile over the mouth of the pot, buried it five feet deep in the ground in his father’s garden. in about 13 months he dug-up the imprisoned reptile, & found it alive & well, & considerably grown. He buried it again as at first, & on a second visit at about the same period found it circumstanced as before. He then deposited the pot as formerly a third time, only laying the tile so as not quite to cover the whole of its mouth: but when he came to examine it again next year, the toads was gone. he each time trod the earth down very hard over the pot.
- 1775: June 10, 1775 – Shower in the night. Planted-out vast quantities of annuals both in the borders, & basons; both in the fields, & gardens.
- 1774: June 10, 1774 – Young broods of moor-hens appear. Lettuces that stood the winter are very fine. Cut my St. foin: it is in full bloom, & a good crop: this is the seventh crop…. swifts have eggs, but do not sit. Do they lay more than two?
- 1772: June 10, 1772 – Brisk wind all day which falls with the sun.
- 1771: June 10, 1771 – Small rain in the night. Ephemera cauda biseta. The angler’s may-fly. Myriads of may-flies appear for the first time on the Alresford stream. The air was crowded with them, & the surface of the water covered. Large trouts sucked them in as they lay struggling on the surface of the stream, unable to rise till their wings were dryed. This appearance reconciled me in some measure to the wonderful account that Scopoli gives of the quantities emerging from the rivers of Carniola. See his Entomologia.
- 1769: June 10, 1769 – Young hedge-hogs. Wood-strawberries.
- 1768: June 10, 1768 – The nightingale, having young, leaves off singing, & makes a plaintive & a jarring noise.
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