Index. 



243 



Thistle, 212, 213 ; in September, 230 

 Thomson, his poetry, 60 ; on ploughing, 



9i 



Thrush, as a nest-builder, 143 



Thunderstorms, 221 



Thyme, wild, its fragrance, 212 



Tomtit, 142-3 



Trees, venerable, how important in sce- 

 nery, 51 ; prejudices against, 158 



Troyon, 195 



Trunks and branches in winter, 48 



Vegetation, change of, in autumn, 232 



Veronique, le Val Ste., i 



Viburnum, in January, 48 



Virgil, his use of the willow, 75 ; how 

 he mentions trees particularly, 1 76 ; 

 his preference of olive to willow, 177 ; 

 his affectionate comparison of species 

 amongst trees, 1 78 ; how far he may 

 be compared to a modern painter, 179 



Virgil and Chaucer, 173 



Virgil and Theocritus compared, 187 



Walnut, bark of, 49 ; in March, 81 ; in 



May, 156 

 Walls, old, 87 



Weasel, the, 30, 56, 236 



Wheat, 224 



Wheatfield, in April, 113 



White, Gilbert, 134 



Whitethorn, its wintry coloring, 46 



Wilderness, the old dread of, 19 



Willow, varieties of, 71 ; round-eared, in 

 blossom, 72 ; associated with unhappi- 

 ness, 73 ; Latin for, 75 ; French for, 

 ib. ; Italian for, ib. ; the time of his 

 glory, 102 ; in May, 155 ; beauty of it 

 when unmaimed, 160; keeps green 

 late, 233 



Wine, elder-flower, 209 



Winter, colors in, 42 ; mild, 53 ; com- 

 parative rigors of, 57; the perfect, 58 



Winter scenery, beauties of, 15 ; color of, 



35 



Wolves and boars, 34 

 Woods, their color in January, 43 

 Wordsworth, his poem on the daffodil, 



82 ; his poem on the lesser celandine, 



108 

 Wrens, their nests, 144 



Year, limits of a, 66; sylvan, close ofj 

 235 



