July 9, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jul 9th, 1768
The capsule of the tway-blade bursts at a touch, & scatters the dust-like seed on all sides.
July 6, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jul 6th, 1768
No sun for several days. Bad time for corn. No cucumbers under hand-glasses will set.
July 4, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jul 4th, 1768
First young swallows. Cut the first succade-melon. Grasshopper-lark sings day and night.
July 1, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jul 1st, 1768
Great storm of thunder and lightening. Tiled the succades.
June 29, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jun 29th, 1768
Ricked my St foin in good order. The ears of wheat in general are very long. Wheat blows still.
June 28, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jun 28th, 1768
Showers about. Dryed & cocked my st. foin.
June 12, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jun 12th, 1768
Glow-worms abound. Phallus stinks in the hedges.
June 10, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jun 10th, 1768
The nightingale, having young, leaves off singing, & makes a plaintive & a jarring noise.
June 3, 1768
Posted by sydney on Jun 3rd, 1768
The reed-sparrow, passer troquatus in aurundinetis nidificans, sings at Liss, near Mrs. Cole’s ponds. It sings night and day while breeding & has a fine variety of notes.
*As it appears since, this was the passer arundicnaceus minor of Ray: a thin-billed bird, and probably a bird of summer passage.
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