July 5
Posted by sydney on Jul 5th, 2009
- 1792: July 5, 1792 – The Provost of Oriel, & lady came.
- 1791: July 5, 1791 – London
Rasps come in. Many Martins in the green park. In a fruit-shop near St. James were set out to sale black cluster-grapes, pine apples, peaches, nectarines, & Orleans plums. - 1789: July 5, 1789 – My scarlet straw-berries are good: what we eat at S. Lambeth were stale, & bad. A peat-cutter brought me lately from Cranmoor a couple of snipe’s eggs which are beautifully marbled. They are rather large, & long for the size of the bird, & not bigger at one end than the other. The parent birds had not sat on them.
* These eggs, I find since, were the eggs of a Churn-owl: the eggs of Snpies, differ much from the former in size, shape, & colour. The peat-cutter was led into the mistake by finding his eggs in a bog, or moor. - 1788: July 5, 1788 – The fly-catchers build again in the vines with a view to a second brood. Timothy grazes on the grass-plot. Some dishes of wood-strawberries are brought to the door.
- 1787: July 5, 1787 – Flowers hurried, & injured by the heat. Curious pinks.
- 1785: July 5, 1785 – Young cocci abound again on the vines. Began to cut the meadow-grass: it is very scanty, not half a crop. Men sow turnips; but the seeds lie on the ground without vegetating. Those that sprout are soon eaten by the fly.
- 1784: July 5, 1784 – Timothy Turner cuts Baker’s hill, the crop of which he has bought. It is St foin run to seed, the 17th crop.
- 1783: July 5, 1783 – Tim: Turner bought, & carryed-off my St foin, the 16th crop. It was over-ripe, & not so large a burden as the last. The St foin was all run to seed. The garden wants rain.
- 1780: July 5, 1780 – Began to cut the tall hedges. Put a bed of moss round the white cucumbers. Young partridges run.
- 1778: July 5, 1778 – We have had no thunder-shower all this summer, tho’ many have fallen in sight of us. Much mischief by this thunder in distant parts.
- 1776: July 5, 1776 – Field-crickets are pretty near silent; they begin their shilling cry about the middle of May.
- 1774: July 5, 1774 – Swallows feed their young in the air. Martins, & swallows, that have numerous families, are continually feeding them: while swifts that have but two young to maintain, seem much at their leisure, & do not attend on their nests for hours together, nor appear at all in blowing wet days. Swifts retire to their nests in very heavy showers.
- 1773: July 5, 1773 – Cold starving weather: nothing grows.
- 1772: July 5, 1772 – Frogs migrate with the showers of yesterday. Dust flies. No appearance of rain left.
- 1771: July 5, 1771 – Cut the slip and part of the mead. Elder in full bloom.
- 1770: July 5, 1770 – Sultry. Showers at a distance. The thermr 73 abroad in the shade.
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