AUGUST. 21 



flowering for the second time), Carnations, Mignonette, Antirrhinums, 

 Japanese Anemones, Dahlias, Roses, Rudbeckias, Geraniums, Canter- 

 bury Bells, Sweet Williams, Cornflowers, Garden Mallows, Esch- 

 scholtzia, and Violets. Beans ready for picking; Potatoes quite ripe; 

 Carrots and Onions almost ready; Cabbages mostly ruined by cater- 

 pillars of the Large Garden White Butterfly. 



18th. -Very hot; 110 degrees in the sun at 8 a.m. Many House 

 Sparrows perched on the shocks of Oats in field facing my house. 

 Robin singing. Coal Titmouse very noisy. 



19th. Dull early, afterwards giving place to brilliant sunshine, 

 then dull again towards evening, and very oppressive. 



Flowers in bloom: Long-rooted Cat's Ear, Scentless Mayweed 

 (there is not the mass of white to be seen now as during the last few 

 weeks), Field Thistle (many thousands of Thistles have gone to seed, 

 and to-day the seeds were floating almost everywhere), Nipplewort, 

 Dandelion, Field Convolvulus, White Campion, Yarrow (still flowering 

 strongly, and no signs of going off), Bulbous Crowfoot, White Dead 

 Nettle, Sow Thistle (many gone to seed), Hedge Parsley, Hop Trefoil, 

 Ragwort (going off), Toadflax (in its beauty now, and a very uncom- 

 mon flower to many people) Bird's Foot Trefoil, Dove s Foot Crane's 

 Bill (coming on flower again rapidly), Chickweed (a similar remark 

 applies), Scarlet Poppy, White Clover, Creeping Crowfoot, Spear 

 Plume Thistle, Charlock, Milk Thistle, Black Horehound (mostly 

 gone off, the pinkish blossoms all rusty brown), Cow Parsnip (the 

 greater portion gone to seed, the brownish pods very conspicuous by 

 the hedgerows now), Musk Mallow, Common Mallow (in my recent 

 notes I wrote, I believe, that both these had finished their flowering 

 period, but here to-day we find them in bloom again ! We shall never 

 understand Wild Nature any more than we understand Human nature I), 

 Wild Carrot (the bird's nest seed heads more conspicuous than ever), 

 Small Willow Herb (growing of all places in a newly-made and very 

 stony road), Heartsease, Prickly-headed Poppy, Knot Grass, Red 

 Clover, Small Knapweed (I have not come across the large species 

 this Summer; surely it is not so uncommon!), Shepherd's Purse, 

 Bramble (going off), Wild Thyme, Harebell, Yellow Bedstraw, White 

 Bryony, Woody Nightshade, Cinquefoil, Purple Medick (this violet- 

 coloured flower is really very beautiful; when going off flower it 

 assumes a much paler tint), Groundsel, Scarlet Pimpernel, Field 

 Scabious, Corn Sow Thistle, Bladder Campion, Germander Speed- 

 well (in the scorching August sunshine is it not a relief to come across 



