The Book of the Seasons, Or The Calender of Nature |
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... Grounds - Origin of Fairy Rings - Rural Occupations - Angling - Migration of Birds - Calendar of Garden Flowers - Botanical and Entomological Calendars SEPTEMBER . Lays of the Seasons , No. 3 , Autumn — Sports- man's preparations , his ...
... Grounds - Origin of Fairy Rings - Rural Occupations - Angling - Migration of Birds - Calendar of Garden Flowers - Botanical and Entomological Calendars SEPTEMBER . Lays of the Seasons , No. 3 , Autumn — Sports- man's preparations , his ...
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... ground ; and in the air , a bitter , scythe - edged , perforating wind from the north ; or , what is worse , the north - east , sweeps the descending snow along , whirling it from the open fields , and driving it against whatever ...
... ground ; and in the air , a bitter , scythe - edged , perforating wind from the north ; or , what is worse , the north - east , sweeps the descending snow along , whirling it from the open fields , and driving it against whatever ...
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... ground ; the one to track game , the other vermin ; and thousands of pole- cats , weasels , stoats , rats , otters , badgers , and similar little nightly depredators , are traced to their hiding - places in old buildings , banks , and ...
... ground ; the one to track game , the other vermin ; and thousands of pole- cats , weasels , stoats , rats , otters , badgers , and similar little nightly depredators , are traced to their hiding - places in old buildings , banks , and ...
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... ground with a sheet of the most glassy ice . Such a frost occurred in 1811 , when great numbers of birds were caught , and amongst them several bustards , their wings being glazed to their sides , and their feet to the ground . But of ...
... ground with a sheet of the most glassy ice . Such a frost occurred in 1811 , when great numbers of birds were caught , and amongst them several bustards , their wings being glazed to their sides , and their feet to the ground . But of ...
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... ground released from its frosty bondage , begin to burrow and throw up their heaps of fresh and crumbly mould .. It is well that I said that I do not attempt to describe any particular season , but speak of them generally ; for it is a ...
... ground released from its frosty bondage , begin to burrow and throw up their heaps of fresh and crumbly mould .. It is well that I said that I do not attempt to describe any particular season , but speak of them generally ; for it is a ...
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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