June 21
Posted by sydney on Jun 21st, 2009
- 1792: June 21, 1792 – Put sticks to some of the kidney-beans. Longest day: a cold, harsh solstice! The rats have carried away six out of seven of my biggest Bantam chickens; some from the stable, & some from the brew-house.
- 1791: June 21, 1791 – Mr. Richardson’s straw-berries very dry, & tasteless.
- 1790: June 21, 1790 – Scarlet-straw-berries good. A small praecox melon. The longest day:
“The longest daye in time resignes to nighte;The greatest oke in time to duste doth turne;The Raven dies; the Egle failes of flighte;The Phoenix rare in time herselfe doth burne;The princelie stagge at lenghte his race doth ronne;And all must ende that ever was begonne.”
Geffrey Whitney’s Emblemmes; p. 230, 1586 - 1789: June 21, 1789 – Vines begin to blossom: corn-flags blow. My brother trenched his field, & sowed it with barley: but the corn seems as if it would be too big, & begins already to lodge. My brother has set up a may-pole 55 feet in height: it is constructed out of two slender deal-spars, & for support cramped to the corner of a garden wall.
- 1788: June 21, 1788 – Bro. B. has in his grounds 77 rows of Lucerne, which are each 48 yards in length. This plot furnishes his three horses with green meat the summer thro’, & is cut at an avarage four times in the year. His gardener cuts-up three rows at a time several evenings in the week, & observes that one row fodders one horse for 24 hours. The crop is kept clean at considerable expense; & would soon be over-run with weeds, was not care & attention bestowed. As soon as the whole rows are gone thro’, those that were cut at first are ready to be cut again. He has 15 lights of melons, & 16 lights for cucumbers; & 40 hand glasses for ridge-Cucumbers & other purposes.
- 1784: June 21, 1784 – Dark & chilly, rain. Cold and comfortless.
- 1783: June 21, 1783 – The late ten dripping days have done infinite service to the grass, & spring-corn.
- 1781: June 21, 1781 – Finished cutting the St foin, which has stood full long. The 14th crop. Sold it to John Hale. In some parts a good burden.
- 1777: June 21, 1777 – Wheat begins to come into ear. A pair of martins began a nest this day over the garden-door. The brick-burner has received great damage among his ware that was drying by the continual rains.
- 1775: June 21, 1775 – Hay makes at a vast rate. Vast crops of plums, currants, & gooseberries. House-martin which laid in an old nest, hatches. House-martins, which breed in an old nest get the start of those that build in new ones by 10 days, or a fortnight.
- 1774: June 21, 1774 – Dark, & still. Rain.
- 1773: June 21, 1773 – First brood of young swallows comes forth more early than usual. They commonly appear about the first week in July.
- 1772: June 21, 1772 – Brother John sailed from Cadiz for England.
- 1771: June 21, 1771 – St foin housed about Winton.
- 1769: June 21, 1769 – Vast rain, cold wind. Quite a winter’s day.
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