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Page viii
... Grass - Cottage Gardens - Haw- horns - The Nightingale - Flowers - The love of them natural to children - Moral emblems with all nations- Use of them among the Greeks - the Hebrews - The beautiful illustration they afforded to Christ ...
... Grass - Cottage Gardens - Haw- horns - The Nightingale - Flowers - The love of them natural to children - Moral emblems with all nations- Use of them among the Greeks - the Hebrews - The beautiful illustration they afforded to Christ ...
Page ix
... Grasses in flower - Hay - harvest com- mencing - Summer Floods - Sheep - shearing , its ancient festivities Wild Flowers and their old names Holy Flowers - June , its name - Midsummer Flowers - Fern Owl - Rural Occupations - Angling ...
... Grasses in flower - Hay - harvest com- mencing - Summer Floods - Sheep - shearing , its ancient festivities Wild Flowers and their old names Holy Flowers - June , its name - Midsummer Flowers - Fern Owl - Rural Occupations - Angling ...
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... grass- hoppers . The eye marvelleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof , and the heart is astonished at the raining of it . The hoar - frost also as salt he poureth on the earth , and being con- gealed it lieth on the top of sharp ...
... grass- hoppers . The eye marvelleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof , and the heart is astonished at the raining of it . The hoar - frost also as salt he poureth on the earth , and being con- gealed it lieth on the top of sharp ...
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... grass , from the utmost nakedness has put on a pure and feathery garniture , which appears the work of enchantment , and has all the air and romantic novelty of a fairy - land . Silence and purity are thrown over the earth as a mantle ...
... grass , from the utmost nakedness has put on a pure and feathery garniture , which appears the work of enchantment , and has all the air and romantic novelty of a fairy - land . Silence and purity are thrown over the earth as a mantle ...
Page 41
... grass lands . Plough- ing is on the increase ; and spring wheat , beans , peas , oats , and tares are sown . In mild weather , hedges are planted ; overgrown fences are cut , or plashed . Ponds and drains are made . Tim- ber is felled ...
... grass lands . Plough- ing is on the increase ; and spring wheat , beans , peas , oats , and tares are sown . In mild weather , hedges are planted ; overgrown fences are cut , or plashed . Ponds and drains are made . Tim- ber is felled ...
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aliis Alpine amongst autumn Azalea banks beauty bees behold birds blue bogs boughs Broad-leaved Butterfly CALENDAR OF BRITISH Chalky Cnicus coast comes April comes Aug comes Dec comes Nov comes Oct Common corn Corn-fields creatures cum mult Curruca delightful Ditches earth eggs Eringo Fieldfare fields flowers forest fresh Fritillary frost Fumitory Gardens Globe-flower goes Feb goes Sept Goosander grass green Haunts Hawkweed heart Hipparchia Hornbeam insects John's-wort larvæ leaves Marsh MARY HOWITT Meadows and pastures Moist month Moth mountains mult Nature nest numbers Orchis Phlox plants pleasant poets Polyommatus pools Primula Purple Rest-Harrow Rhododendron rivers rocks Sandy places Saxifrage Scotland Sea-shore season SELECT CALENDAR snow species Spiræa spirit spring Star of Bethlehem streams summer sweet thou trees tures Viburnum vulgaris Waste ground Watery places White wild Willow winter Woods and hedges Yellow young Zinnia