AN ARCADIAN CALENDAR 



the Italian " lucciola," a glow-worm, the flowers 

 sparkling so brightly when wet with dew. The giant of 

 the tribe is the great sea-rush of Western coasts, with 

 leaves so sharp that they cut the hand, and flying 

 insects are impaled on the points. 



How many people, not being of Devonshire, could 

 translate this passage of dialect from a 

 Rustic Devonshire book? " Aye, zure; and her, 

 Fruit leaning over the hatch, look'd delighted to 



Names zee es, and wid always dole out something 

 a tetty o' rosen, or ripe deberries, christ- 

 lings, or mazzards, or crumplings." A tetty is a nosegay ; 

 deberries are gooseberries, and the other names stand 

 for plums, cherries and small apples. From Devonshire 

 come some of the quaintest rustic names for apples: 

 from pigs'-noses, flesh-and-blood, sweet-ladens, bitter- 

 sweets, buff-coats, winter wardens, and leather-hides 

 (a name known to Shakespeare) to varpneys (four-a- 

 penny). 



SPLENDID shows of sunflowers to-day remind one that 

 their heads, dried and well-saved, make 

 Lure for attractive lures to titmice if set up on sticks 

 Tomtits in winter. The way the little tits dart at the 

 great discs reminds one of arrows in flight 

 for a target. A sparrow or finch may settle on the head 

 for a steady feast, and make demonstrations against the 

 tits, but by their dash and quickness the little blue birds 

 gain their share of the seeds. The sunflower has an old 

 name, Turnsole, from the idea that it turns with the sun, 

 turning on its god, as Moore sang, the same look when 

 he sets as when he rises. 



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