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. 



l^tk'Octobcr, 1895. 



DEAR MARCO Many letters have ap- 

 peared in the papers giving accounts of the 

 vagaries of plant life which have taken place 

 in consequence of the extraordinary warmth 

 which prevailed during the last month. I 

 noticed some such phenomenal events in our 

 garden, as, for instance, an apple-tree with ripe 

 fruit and fresh blossom on it, a second crop 

 of raspberries, and a laburnum with patches 

 of blossom and young leaves here and there, 

 whilst the seed-pods were still hanging on it. 



