April 6, 1787
Posted by sydney on Apr 6th, 1787
Stone-curlews pass along over my house of an evening with a short quick note after dark. Wry-neck pipes in the orchard. Nightingale sings at Citraro in the nearer Calabria.
April 2, 1787
Posted by sydney on Apr 2nd, 1787
Lined the back of the Cucumber-bed with hot dung.
April 1, 1787
Posted by sydney on Apr 1st, 1787
Crown imperials, double hyacinths, cherries against walls, blow.
March 31, 1787
Posted by sydney on Mar 31st, 1787
Turner shoots the chaffinches. Mackarals come. Bantam-hen lays. Black & grey snails without shells.
March 30, 1787
Posted by sydney on Mar 30th, 1787
Chaffinches pull off the blossoms of the polyanths, which are beautifully variegated.
March 29, 1787
Posted by sydney on Mar 29th, 1787
Some swallows were seen over the lake of Geneva, & at Rolle. On March 30 several were seen at the same place.
March 27, 1787
Posted by sydney on Mar 27th, 1787
Swallows were first seen this year at Messina in Sicily.
March 26, 1787
Posted by sydney on Mar 26th, 1787
Transplanted some of the best, blowing seedling polyanths from the orchard to the bank in the garden. Planted some scorpion-sennas from S. Lambeth.
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