INDEX TO "SYLVAN YEAR." 



Acacia-robinia, 211 



Agriculture, its influence upon landscape, 



in 

 Alder, in January, 49 

 'Aminta,' Tasso's, 190 

 Anchorite and cicada, 182 

 Angelica, in October, 233 

 Apricot-blossoms in March, 87 

 April weather, 10 1 

 Arcadia of classic imagination, 185 

 Art and Botany, 38 

 Arum, 148 ; in April, 120 

 Ash, grace of, 49 ; in March, 81 ; in May, 



156 ; in June, 208 ; its way of changing 



color, 232 

 Aspen poplar, its leaves in May, 130 



Beech, 116 ; its young leaves in May, 156 ; 

 its way of changing color in autumn, 

 233 ; winter foliage of, 36 



Bees, in 



Birch, 211 ; its stem, 43, 116; in May, 

 157; its resistance to heat and cold, 

 ib. ; its uses, ib. ; a defence of, 160 



Bird-catcher, his feelings, 140 



Bird-cherry, in March, 81 ; prunus, 161 



Bird-music, 135 



Birds associated with plants, 147 ; songs 

 of, 134 ; language of, 206-7 



Bishop, anecdote of a French, 27 



Bittercress, meadow, 120 



Blackthorn, its wintry coloring, 46 ; in 

 March, 80 ; in spring, 1 14 



Boar, the domesticated, 25 ; the wild, 

 56; as food, 35 



Bonheur, Auguste, his painting of south- 

 ern sunshine, 218 ; Rosa, 195 



Botany and landscape-painting, yj ; poet- 

 ical, 151 



Bouleau, Jean, a forester, 26 



Boy, anecdote of a, 69 



Bracken, its change of color in August, 228 



Bramble, in January, 37 ; stalks of, in Jan- 

 uary, 46 ; leaves of, 231 ; in October, 233 



Breton, Jules, 195 ; a picture of his, 223 



Broom, green of, 43 ; in flower, 121 ; its 

 loud self-assertion, 162 



Browning, Mrs., her use of reeds in 

 poetry, 99 



Bryony, its roots, 120 



Buckwheat, 225 



Buff on, his description of the nightingale's 

 song, 205 



Bugle, the creeping, 212 



Buttercup, its learned name, 165 



Byron, how he celebrated the nightingale, 

 201 



Caltha, the marsh, 168 



Canadians, the French, 14 



Cantharides, 208 



Celandine, the lesser, 107 



Chaucer, his intense love for nature, 105 ; 

 his habit of early rising, 124 ; his love of 

 daisies, 125 ; his description of the col- 

 ors of May, 131 ; his allusion to birds, 

 137-8; Chaucer and Virgil, 173; his 

 abounding eloquence, 1 74 ; his love of 

 the nightingale, 203 



Cherry-tree, in April, 115 



Cherry-trees, wild, their change of color 

 in August, 228 



Cherville, Marquis de, his observation of 

 nest-building, 143 



