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plant, with its small yellow stars of flowers, we may owe 

 our chief race-name. 



THE slopes of chalky downs are now bravely spangled at 

 night by glow-worm lanterns, shining with 

 Fairy a soft, green radiance, scores together in 



Lamps favoured places, those, no doubt, where 

 snails abound. As glow-worms live on 

 snails, eating them out of hearth and home, the gardener 

 harassed by the summer's snail-plague might profitably 

 set his boy to collect the insects from the hills and 

 lanes, as country boys delight to do. And certainly the 

 glow-worms, when turned loose on a grassy bank or 

 " in a dell of dew," make a bewitching illumination for 

 the garden. 



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AN aspiring great bindweed took a hitch round a hop 

 growing in a hedge, and, with or without 

 Climbers declaration of war, started climbing. The 

 at War struggle was a silent one, not spectacular, 

 but there was no doubt of its intensity, 

 plant struggling with plant for light and air. The bind- 

 weed is as artful as the hop is redoubtable in climbing : 

 put a prop six inches from a young bindweed shoot, 

 and it will reach out and find it, though the prop be 

 frequently moved by an inch or so. Yesterday the 

 bindweed out-topped the hop. Now it triumphantly 

 flaunts its enormous white trumpets from the hop's 

 highest spray, and they seem to be sounding a blast of 

 victory. 



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