June 12
Posted by sydney on Jun 12th, 2009
- 1793: June 12, 1793 – Bright, sun, golden even. Cut eight cucumbers. Mrs. Clement & children left us. Many swifts.
- 1792: June 12, 1792 – Mr Burbey has got eleven martins nests under the eaves of his old shop.
- 1791: June 12, 1791 – Clouds, hail, shower, gleams. Sharp air, & fire in the parlor. Showers about. Garden-crops much retarded, & nothing can be planted. Farmer Bridger sends me three real snipe’s eggs: they are in shape, & colour exactly like those of the lapwing, only one half less. The colour of the eggs is a dull yellow, spotted with chocolate: they are blunt at the great end, & taper much till they become sharp at the smaller. The eggs, sent me for snipe’s eggs last year, seem to have been those of a fern-owl.
- 1790: June 12, 1790 – Cauliflowers abound. Pease sold for ten pence the peck.
- 1789: June 12, 1789 – Bror Benjn cuts his grass, clover & rye, a decent burden, but much infested with wild chamomile, vulg: margweed: mayweed.
- 1788: June 12, 1788 – My Brother’s gardener cut his first melon, a Romagna.
- 1787: June 12, 1787 – A poor gardener in this parish who had three acres of kidney-beans, has lost them all by the frost of last week! Hay finely made, & making. The rudiments of the vine-bloom does not seem to be injured by the late frost.
- 1784: June 12, 1784 – Men wash their sheep. Hoed carrots, parsneps, &c. Received 5 gallons & a quart of French brandy from Mr Edmd Woods.
- 1783: June 12, 1783 – Ophrys nidus avis, many in bloom in the hanger, along the side of ye Bostal.
- 1780: June 12, 1780 – Dragon-flies. Bees swarm. Sheep are shorn.
- 1776: June 12, 1776 – Drones abound round the mouth of the hive that is expected to swarm. Sheep are shorn.
- 1774: June 12, 1774 – Odd meteorous circle round the sun, which the common people call a mock sun.
- 1772: June 12, 1772 – St foin blows, & gets very tall.
- 1768: June 12, 1768 – Glow-worms abound. Phallus stinks in the hedges.
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