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Index. 



* Parisina,' Byron's poem, opening of, 201 



Pascal, quoted, 100 



Pastoral, in French imitations, 193 ; the 

 classic, 172 



Peach-blossom in March, 87 



Pear-trees, their scarlet color in autumn, 

 232 



Peasant, an old, 94 



Pedicularis, 166 



Periwinkle, the, 78 ; its Latin and French 

 names, ib. 



Persicaria, flowers late, 231 



Picture in Virgil, 1 79-80 



Pine, cones of, in May, 169 



Planting, 50 



Ploughing with oxen, 89 



Ploughshare in Virgil, 90 



Poaching in France, 27 



Poets, of the eighteenth century, 60 ; then- 

 love for spring, 63 



Polygonum, the amphibious, 227 



Poplar, aspen, in January, 49 ; in April, 

 116; its way of changing color in 

 autumn, 232 



Potentilla, 133 



Primrose, the common, no 



Privet, in March, 81 



Pulmonaria, 133 



Quince-tree, in January, 37 ; in March, 81 



Ranunculus aquatilis, 70, 166 ; in May, 



128 

 Rape, a field of, 113 ; in flower, 121 

 Reed, the common, 96 

 Reeds, in poetry, 97 

 Retirement and occupation, 9 

 Rising early, 124 

 Roads, ancient Gaulish, n 

 Robinia, 211 ; change of color in August, 



229 

 Rose, fortunate name, 167 

 Rossetti, his poem of the wood-spurge, 



Rowan-tree, its vermilion berries, 229 

 Rushes in January, 47 ; of preceding year, 

 120 



Saint-Lambert, his poem of the ' Seasons ' 



quoted, 141 

 Sallow-willow, 72 



Sand, George, her exquisite writing on 



rustic subjects, 196 

 Saplings and their leaves, 36 

 Satyr, conception of the, 184 

 Scabious, its late flowers, 234 

 Science, barbarity of, 165 

 Shakspeare, his use of the willow in 



'Othello,' 74 

 Shelley, on daisies, 126 

 Shepherd, a, 17 

 Shepherdess, a, ib. 

 Skies, gray, of hot weather, 215 

 Snow, 55 



Soapwort, in March, 77 ; in August, 226 

 Socrates, his death, 86 

 Sow, a wild, 21 

 Sowing of two kinds, 93 

 Spenser, his conception of the forest, 52 

 Spindle-tree, 79 

 Spring, its sudden arrival, 61 ; more the 



season of poets than of painters, 63 ; 



the feeling, 64 

 Spurge, its flower and leaf, 150 

 Starwort, 127 

 Stellaria, ib. 

 Streams in spring, 103 

 Summer, the landscape-painter's time of 



harmony, 66 ; a wonderful, 68 ; the 



thirst for, 69 

 Summers, fine, their monotony, 215 

 Sunshine, oppression of, 216; English, 



219 

 Swallow, associated with the celandine, 



no 

 Swallows, their nest-building, 145 

 Sycamore-maple, in flower, 171 

 Sylvan life, permanence of its interests, 



181 



Tasso, his 'Aminta,' 190; his way of 

 sketching, 192 



Teazle, in winter, 44 



Tennyson, his use of the willow in the 

 1 Lady of Shalott,' 74 ; his use of reeds 

 in poetry, 98 



Theocritus, landscape studies in his 

 Idyls, 183 ; compared with Virgil, 

 187 ; his personal experience of Na- 

 ture, 188; his seventh Idyl quoted, 

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