June 27

Posted by sydney on Jun 27th, 2009
  • 1792: June 27, 1792 – The late pliant sort of Honeysuckles, that do not make good standards, begin to show their yellow bloom: the more early are on the decline. Hung the net over the cherry-trees at the end of the house to keep off the magpies, which come to our very windows at three & four in the morning. The daws also from the church have invaded my neighbours cherries. Pies, & daws are very impudent!
  • 1791: June 27, 1791 – Timothy Turner cuts my grass for himself, a small crop.  Scarabaeus solstitialis first appears in my brother’s outlet: they are very punctual in their coming-out every year.  They are a small species, about half the size of the May chafer, & are known in some parts by the name fern-chafer.
  • 1790: June 27, 1790 – Roses make a beautiful show.  Orange-lillies blossom.  Sr George Wheeler’s tutsan blows.
  • 1789: June 27, 1789 – My brother cuts his first melon, a small cantaleupe.  Barley in bloom, that which was lodged rises a little.
  • 1788: June 27, 1788 – Met a cart of whortle-berries on the road.
  • 1787: June 27, 1787 – A brood of little partridges was seen in Baker’s hill among the Sainfoin.
  • 1786: June 27, 1786 – Many of Bror Thomas’s young fowls pine, & die; & so they did last summer.
  • 1785: June 27, 1785 – The Flycatchers, five in number, leave their nest in the vine over the parlor-window.  Hemerocallis, day-lily, blows.  Chaffers fall dead from the hedges; they have served their generation, & will be seen but little longer.
  • 1783: June 27, 1783 – Nose-flies, & stouts make the horses very troublesome.
  • 1781: June 27, 1781 – The honey-buzzard sits hard.
  • 1780: June 27, 1780 – Swallows feed their young on the ground in Mr. Curtis’s botanic garden in George’s fields.
  • 1777: June 27, 1777 – Boys bring me female wasps, & hornets.  Ophrys nidus avis.
  • 1772: June 27, 1772 – Wheat begins to blow.  Finished my hay, which is curious.  Watered the garden: nothing grows. Cucumbers cease to bear.  The drought has lasted three weeks this day.

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