The Book of the Seasons, Or The Calender of Nature |
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... Green Fruits - 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 ...
... Green Fruits - 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 ...
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... Green - wood , a poem - October , its name - Dissemination of Plants , curious contrivances in seeds for that purpose- Rural Occupations - Angling - Migration of Birds - Ca- lendar of Garden Flowers - Botanical Calendar 271 NOVEMBER ...
... Green - wood , a poem - October , its name - Dissemination of Plants , curious contrivances in seeds for that purpose- Rural Occupations - Angling - Migration of Birds - Ca- lendar of Garden Flowers - Botanical Calendar 271 NOVEMBER ...
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... At the moment in which I am writing , accounts from Scotland ap- pear in the newspapers of a most tremendous snow - storm , which , leaving the country south- ward of Alnwick and Gretna - Green nearly free , JANUARY . 3.
... At the moment in which I am writing , accounts from Scotland ap- pear in the newspapers of a most tremendous snow - storm , which , leaving the country south- ward of Alnwick and Gretna - Green nearly free , JANUARY . 3.
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William Howitt. ward of Alnwick and Gretna - Green nearly free , has buried all northward of that line , in a vast fall of snow , sweeping across the country even to the shores of the Irish Channel . The mails are stopped , the snow ...
William Howitt. ward of Alnwick and Gretna - Green nearly free , has buried all northward of that line , in a vast fall of snow , sweeping across the country even to the shores of the Irish Channel . The mails are stopped , the snow ...
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... green wheat . Their coverings of slime prevent the escape of animal heat , and hence they are ena- bled to ravage when their brethren of the shell are compelled to lie dormant . Earth - worms likewise appear about this time ; but let ...
... green wheat . Their coverings of slime prevent the escape of animal heat , and hence they are ena- bled to ravage when their brethren of the shell are compelled to lie dormant . Earth - worms likewise appear about this time ; but let ...
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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