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LETTER XXVIII 



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Boscoml>e Christchurch Old and Modern Work 

 Scenery at Bournemouth The Sweet Chestnut Tree 

 Titian's Tree Beauty of Sweet Chestnut Tree Hop 

 Poles Impressionist School of Landscape Painters-r- 

 Martins Hawking over the Sea 216 



LETTER XXIX 



Vagaries of Plants owing to Warm Autumn Glowworms 

 Visit to Langford The Church A Vested Crucifix 

 Restorations The Parvise Old Michaelmas Day 

 "Flitting" Apples The Quince Marmalade Recipe 

 from Gerard Late Songs of Birds 223. 



LETTER XXX 



Frost Weeds Drawing of Earringdon Street by G. P. 

 Boyce Grass Over the Smoking- Room at the Athe- 

 naeum Club Twitch Grass Running Grass Gull and 

 Carrion Crow Berry of Lily-of-the-Valley. . .. 233. 



LETTER XXXI 



Extracts from Correspondents Sir George Grove The 

 Blackbird Vindicated Its Songs described E. Small- 

 field, R.W.S., The Tulip Tree Derivation of " Dwale " 

 The Rev. Canon Ellacomlie The Velvet Rose 

 Yellow Crocus Swallows Snails Crown Imperial 

 Leaves Absorbing Moisture Toads R. Scot Skirving, 

 Esq. Mushrooms Dictamniis Fraxinella Nursery- 

 men's Shortcomings Mrs. Hawkins Starlings and 

 Vermin Anecdote of Wounded Starling Rooks The 

 Rev. Theo. Mayo Seed of the Tulip Tree Light in 

 Animals' Eyes Miss Jekyll Ornithogalum Nutans 

 described. . . .- . . . .... . . 239 



