June 13
Posted by sydney on Jun 13th, 2009
- 1793: June 13, 1793 – Cut ten cucumbers.
- 1791: June 13, 1791 – Farmer Spencer mows his cow-grass.
- 1790: June 13, 1790 – Aritchokes, & chardons, come into eating. Cucumbers abound.
- 1789: June 13, 1789 – My brother’s barley begins to come into ear. The squirrel is very fond of the cones of various trees. My niece Hannah’s squirrel is much delighted with the fruit of the coniferous trees, such as the pine, the fir, the larch, & the birch; & had it an opportunity would probably be pleased with the cones of alders. As to Scotch firs, Squirrels not only devour the cones, but they also bark large boughs, & gnaw off the tops of the leading shoots; so that the pine-groves belonging to Mr Beckford at Basing-park are much injured & defaced by those little mischievous quadroupeds, which are too subtile, & too nimble to be easily taken, or destroyed. The Cypress-trees, & passion-flowers mostly killed by the late hard winter.
- 1788: June 13, 1788 – The bloom of the vines fills the chambers with an agreeable scent somewhat like that mignonette.
- 1787: June 13, 1787 – The late frost, I find, has done much damage in Hants.
- 1786: June 13, 1786 – Grey, sprinkling, gleams with thunder. Wavy, curdled clouds, like the remains of thunder.
- 1785: June 13, 1785 – Established summer. Corn-flag blows.
- 1784: June 13, 1784 – On this day arrived here from India Mr Charles Etty. In his passage out, the ship he belonged to was burnt off the Island of Ceylon. He came back from Madras to the Cape of good hope in the Exeter man of war; & from thence worked his passage in the Content transport, which brought him to Spit-head. The Exeter was so crazy, & worn-out, that they broke her up, & burnt her at the Cape. Mr Ch Etty brought home two species of Humming-birds which he shot at the Cape of good hope; & two Ostrich eggs from the same place: several fine shells from Joanna island & several turtle’s eggs from the Isle of Ascension. Also the Graphalium squarrosum, a curious Cudweed, from a Dutch-mans garden at the Cape. Turtle’s eggs are round, & white; a little variegated with fine streaks of red, & as large as the eggs of a kite; perhaps larger.
- 1783: June 13, 1783 – Serapias latiflolia begins to bloom in the hanger. The Serapias’s transplanted last summer from the hanger to my garden , grow and thrive. Mr Beeke returned.
- 1782: June 13, 1782 – A house-martin drowned in the water-tub: this accident seems to have been owing to fighting.
- 1781: June 13, 1781 – The house-martins which build in old nests begin to hatch, as may be seen by their throwing-out the egg-shells.
- 1778: June 13, 1778 – Finished laying the floor of my great parlor.
- 1776: June 13, 1776 – Martins begin building at half hour after three in the morning.
- 1775: June 13, 1775 – Red kidney beans begin to climb their sticks. Mulberry-tree in full leaf. Snails copulate.
- 1774: June 13, 1774 – House-martins gather moss, & grasses for their nests from the Roofs of houses.
- 1773: June 13, 1773 – Sanicula europaea. Lysimacha nemorum. Bees swarm. Pease in the fields thrive wonderfully. Thunder.
- 1771: June 13, 1771 – Sphinx filipendula. Emerges from it’s aurelia state. Fixes it’s cods to the dry twigs in hedges; is called in Hants the St foin fly; & is in its crawling state said to be very pernicious to that plant.
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