June 16
Posted by sydney on Jun 16th, 2009
- 1792: June 16, 1792 – Planted some hand-glass plants in the frames of the fruiting cucumber-bed: cut down the lining, & worked it up with some grass-mowings. Some young fly-catchers are out, & fed by their dams.
- 1791: June 16, 1791 – Snails come out of hedges after their long confinement from the drought. A swallow in Tanner’s chimney has hatched. The fern on the forest is killed; but hardly touched by the frost on Selborne down, which is 400 feet higher than Wolmer.
- 1790: June 16, 1790 – My brother finishes a large rick of hay in very nice order.
- 1784: June 16, 1784 – Phallus impudicus, a stink-pot comes up in Mr. Burbey’s asparagus-bed. Received a Hogsh: of port-wine, imported at Southampton.
- 1782: June 16, 1782 – This hot weather makes the tortoise so alert that he traverses all the garden by six o’clock in the morning. When the sun grows very powerful he retires under a garden-mat, or the shelter of some cabbage; not loving to be about in vehement heat. In such weather, he eats greedily.
- 1781: June 16, 1781 – My garden in nice order, & full of flowers in bloom. Lilies, roses, fraxinellas, red valerians, Iris’s, &c., now make a gaudy show.
- 1774: June 16, 1774 – Fern-owl chatters in the hanger.
- 1773: June 16, 1773 – Sheep are shorn.
- 1771: June 16, 1771 – Tempestuous wind & vast rain for 28 hours.
- 1769: June 16, 1769 – The less reed-sparrow, passer arundinaceus minor Raii, sings sweetly, imitating the notes of several birds: it haunts near waters, & sings all night long. Cold weather: nothing grows well. St foin wants to be cut. A distinct lunar rain-bow.
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