CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



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The Ideas associated with Autumn — Often Pessimistic, but needlessly 

 so — Autumn the Period of Fruition — The Infinite Variety of Nature 

 — Why Fruits thought of less Interest than Flowers — The Hedge- 

 rows—Hawthorn or Whitethorn — Worlidge's Mystery of Husbandry 

 — The May — -The Poets thereon — Tree-worship — Haws — the Cross 

 of Thorns — Adam in Eden — The Doctrine of Signatures — The 

 Traveller's Joy — The Privet — Buckthorn — Gerard's Generall 

 Historic of Plantes — The Wild Roses of our Hedges — Hips — The 

 Sweet Briar — Eglantine of the Poets— Bedeguar — The Field Rose 

 — Drying Plants — Hazel — Powers of Divination — The Squirrel's 

 Hoard — Nut-shells and their Occupants — Keats on the Autumn — 

 Prognostications from Nuts — ^Why we eat Almonds and Raisins— 

 Culpeper in Defence of Nuts — The Guelder-rose — Snowball-tree 

 — Woody Nightshade — Its Poisonous Berries — Dry-beaten Folk — 

 Black Nightshade, or Petty Morel — Hop — The Vine of the North — 

 The Herbalist Lobel — Willow-wolves — The Ivy — Its Great Variation 

 in P"orm — Gerard thereupon — Is Ivy harmful to Trees ? — Shake- 

 speare on Parasites — The Poet's Crown — Christmas Decorations — 

 Black Bryony — Red-berried Bryony — Bacon on Climbing Plants 

 — The Blackthorn — Blackthorn Winter — Sloe Tea — Spindle-tree — 

 Wayfaring Tree — The Foure Bookes of Husbandry — Parkinson's 

 Theafrunt Botanicum — The Yew — The Saturnalia — Clipping 

 Dragons and Peacocks — The English Archers— Churchyard Yews 

 — Dogwood — Honeysuckle — The Blackberry — Dewberries — Cloud- 

 berries — Stone-bramble — Raspberry — Strawberry — Mediaeval Pre- 

 scriptions — Barberry — Bird-cherries — The Cuckoo-pint or Wild 

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CHAPTER II 



The Trees of the Forest — The Monarch Oak — Acorns as Food — Oak- 

 mast for the Pigs — Panage in Domesday Book — Oak Galls of 

 Various Kinds — The Beech — St. Leonard's Forest Experiences — 

 Name-carving — Beech-mast — The Hornbeam — The Scotch Fir, or 



