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... rivers - Attention requisite for Bees and Pigeons - Various animals seek their winter retreats -Birds ' - nests occupied by Mice - Rural Occupations- Angling - Migration of Birds Calendar of Garden - 285 Flowers DECEMBER . Lays of the ...
... rivers - Attention requisite for Bees and Pigeons - Various animals seek their winter retreats -Birds ' - nests occupied by Mice - Rural Occupations- Angling - Migration of Birds Calendar of Garden - 285 Flowers DECEMBER . Lays of the ...
Page 17
... rivers , where they offer an unusual prey to the fowler . RURAL OCCUPATIONS . The most important business of the farmer this month , is to feed and comfort his dependent animals his cattle in their stalls and straw- yards ; his sheep in ...
... rivers , where they offer an unusual prey to the fowler . RURAL OCCUPATIONS . The most important business of the farmer this month , is to feed and comfort his dependent animals his cattle in their stalls and straw- yards ; his sheep in ...
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... rivers , and must be sought for at this season in deep , shaded holes , in clear waters with gravelly bottoms ; dace , particularly amongst weeds , and under the foam caused by eddies . The best baits for them now are paste , gentles ...
... rivers , and must be sought for at this season in deep , shaded holes , in clear waters with gravelly bottoms ; dace , particularly amongst weeds , and under the foam caused by eddies . The best baits for them now are paste , gentles ...
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... rivers to spawn ; the fieldfare and woodcock return to their northern quarters ; the rooks are all in motion with building , and it is said by gentlemen who have observed them for many successive years , that the commencement of their ...
... rivers to spawn ; the fieldfare and woodcock return to their northern quarters ; the rooks are all in motion with building , and it is said by gentlemen who have observed them for many successive years , that the commencement of their ...
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... River sides . 4 . XXI . 5. Corylus Avellana , Hazel Nut . Woods . 4 . XXII . 1. Salix purpurea , cum aliis . Bitter purple Willow , with others . Meadows . 4 . XXII . 2. Ruscus aculeatus , Butcher's Broom . Heaths and woods . 4 . XXII ...
... River sides . 4 . XXI . 5. Corylus Avellana , Hazel Nut . Woods . 4 . XXII . 1. Salix purpurea , cum aliis . Bitter purple Willow , with others . Meadows . 4 . XXII . 2. Ruscus aculeatus , Butcher's Broom . Heaths and woods . 4 . XXII ...
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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