CONTENTS. ix 



Universal life, greenness and vigour. Cruel and wanton havoc 

 made amongst young birds at this season. Gardens in their 

 prime. Summer pleasures. Delicious evenings. Mowing. 

 Green Fruits. Grasses in Flower. Hay -harvest commencing 

 Summer Floods. Sheep-shearing, its ancient festivities. Wild 

 Flowers and their old names. Holy Flowers. June, its name. 

 Midsummer Flowers. Fern Owl. Rural Occupations. Angling. 

 Migration of Birds. Calendar of Garden Flowers. Botanical 

 and Entomological Calendars. f ^ ;"* '.ji'H u* ( . . 160 



JULY. Characteristics. Hay-harvest. Remarks on old sports. 

 Progress of knowledge. Silence of Birds. Boys taking 

 Wasps'-nests. Hornets. Twining Plants. Summer Flowers. 

 The pleasantness and beauty, and the curious productions of 

 Heaths. Woods. The Birdboy. Field-paths; their pleasant 

 associations. Picturesque characters. Poets and Field-paths. 

 Paths among the Mountains. Stiles and their varieties. The 

 Domine and the Turnstile. Gradual disappearance of Field- 

 paths. Encroachments of the rich upon the poor. July, its 

 name. Periodical appearances, animal and vegetable. Rural 

 Occupations. Angling. Migration of Birds. Calendar of 

 Garden Flowers. Botanical and Entomological Calendars. 199 



AUGUST. Characteristics. Corn-harvest. Pleasant scenes in the 

 harvest-field. Picturesque features of Harvest as given in the 

 Bible. Harvesters. Harvest-home. Harvest-moon. Second 

 budding of Trees. Refreshed verdure and flowers of the Fields* 

 Singular preservation of Seeds in the earth. Aquatic vegeta- 

 tion. Habits of the Water-rat. The Land-rail. Combat be- 

 tween a Rabbit and Weasel. Young Frogs. Mushrooms. 

 Hedge-fruit. White Fogs. Sea-side Rambles. Field Sports. 

 Remarkable appearance of clouds, August, 1827. August, its 

 name. Periodical appearances in the month. Hop-gathering. 

 Tusser's rules for Hop Grounds. Origin of Fairy Rings. 



