CONTENTS. XI 



Leafing of Trees completed Bees, their swarms Po- 

 pular customs regarding them Rural Occupations 

 Angling Migration of Birds Calendar of Garden 

 Flowers Botanical and Entomological Calendars 123 



JUXE. Lays of the Seasons, No. 2, Summer Darkening 

 hues of foliage Variety and beauty of foliage The 

 Horse-chesnut Beauty of June weather Universal 

 life, greenness and vigour Gardens in their prime 

 Summer pleasures Delicious evenings Mowing 

 Hay-harvest commencing Green Fruits Grasses in 

 flower Sheep -shearing, its ancient festivities Wild 

 Flowers and their old names Holy Flowers June, its 

 name Midsummer Flowers Fern Owl Rural Occu- 

 pations Angling Migration of Birds Calendar of 

 Garden Flowers Botanical and Entomological Calen- 

 dars ..... 167 



JULY. Characteristics Hay-harvest Remarks on old 

 sports Progress of knowledge Silence of Birds Boys 

 taking Wasps' nests Twining Plants Summer Flowers 

 The pleasantness and beauty, and the curious produc- 

 tions of Heaths Woods The Bird-Boy Field-paths 

 Their pleasant associations Picturesque characters 

 Poets and Field-paths Paths among the Mountains 

 Stiles and their varieties The Domine and the Turn- 

 stile Gradual disappearance of Field-paths Encroach- 

 ments of the rich upon the poor July, its name Pe- 

 riodical appearances, animal and vegetable Rural Oc- 

 cupations Angling Migration of Birds Calendar of 

 Garden Flowers Botanical and Entomological Calen- 

 dars 221 



