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Index. 



Chestnut, ancient trees, 10, 51 ; pale 

 golden leaves of its broken branches, 

 14 ; Spanish, its young green leaves, 

 155 ; the Spanish, artistic merits of, 

 1 60 ; its way of changing color in au- 

 tumn, 232 



Cicada and anchorite, 182 



Classical writers, their inferiority in the 

 passion for natural beauty, 173 



Color, natural, in patches, 43 



Colors, intense and delicate, 163 



Constable, the painter, his love of spring, 

 65 ; his preference for spring, 103 ; 

 quoted, ib. ; his taste for a cultivated 

 country, 112 



Cornel, its fruit, 230 



Cowper, his description of the Empress 

 Catherine's ice-palace, 58 



Cowslip, in 



Cuckoo, 147, 148 



Cuckoo-flower, 167 



Cuckoo-pint, 167 



Daffodil, splendor of, in March, 82 

 Dante, his suffering trees, u ; his 'selva 



selvaggia,' 15 ; his feeling about the 



forest, 1 8 



Daubigny, his picture of spring, 64 

 Decay, its true nature, 108 

 December, how passed, 33 

 Deschanel, quoted, 38 

 Diaz, the painter, 39 

 Dinner, a game, 28 

 Discoveries, the early, 95 

 Dock, the sheep-sorrel, 129 

 Docks, their color in August, 228 

 Douglas, Gawin, his hymn of the birds 



to the sun, 139-40 

 Draba Verna, 106 

 Drawing of plants, 40 

 Dupont, Pierre, his song of ' Les Boeufs,' 



171 



Education, paternal, 5 ; public, 6 

 Eglantine, its vermilion fruit, 42 

 Elder, in March, 81 ; tree, 209 ; berries, 



231 

 Emerson, quoted, 15; his feeling about 



the woods, 18 



Etching, subjects for, 10 



Etymology, how it may be poetical, 120 



Fadette, la Petite, quoted from, 196 

 Ferns, in January, 46 ; then- change of 



color in September, 231 

 Figwort ranunculus, 106 

 Firs, their resinous cones, 20 

 Fleur-de-lis, 149 

 Floods in spring, 62 

 Florian, a satirist of, 197 

 Flower and leaf, 79 

 Forest, excursion in, 10 ; scenery of its 



interior, 23 

 Forget-me-not, 210 



French, the, their dislike to solitude, na 

 Frost, hoar, beauty of, 54 

 Furze, in March, 77 



Galingale, 212 



Galium, 212 



Gentians, on the Alps, 114 



Germander, 212 



Girls, peasant, 223 



Goldfinch, 143, 213 



Gooseberry, the wild, in March, 81 



Grasses, in January, 46 ; tufted hair, 234 



Greek language in idyllic poetry, 183 



Green, in winter, 46-7 



Greenfinch, 143 



Harvest-time, 222 



Hawthorn, in March, 79 



Hazel, in January, 48 



Heat, its effects on landscape color, 214 ; 



in July, 221 

 Heather, its change of color in August, 



228 

 Helps, Sir Arthur, his description of a 



pine-wood, 170 

 Hemlock, the young, 83 

 Herbarium, the winter's, 8 

 Herrick, his poem on daffodils, 83 

 Hills in April, 102 

 Hill-tops with many springs, 183 

 Holly, 12 ; in winter, 48 ; its time of 



flowering, 172 

 Honeysuckle, leaves of, in March, 76 ; its 



time of flowering, 210-12 ; late flowers 



of, 234 



