CONTENTS. 



JANUARY. 



Flowers in garden — Primrose— Daisy — Winter Furze — Early 

 Grass— Chiekweed — Holly — Mistletoe — Old customs 



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 FEBRUARY. 



Early leafing trees — Young foliaee of herbs — Snowdrop— Red 

 Dead-nettle — Dandelion— Dandelion Seeds— Groundsel — Ca- 

 nadian Flea-bane— Coltsfoot— Marsh Marigold — First flower 

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MARCH. 



March weather — Almond tree — Lombardy Poplar — Ash — Me- 

 zereon — Poisonous berries — Use of plants in France — Spurge 

 Laurel — Celandine — 'Whitlow grass — Shepherd's Purse — 

 Gloryless — Flowers of woods — Violet — Anemone — Daffodil — 

 Poet's Narcissus — Narcissus in Holland — Arum — Cranesbill — 

 Palm Willow— Hazel— Alder 27 



APRTL, 



Blackthorn — Germander Speedwell — Ivy-leaved Speedwell — 

 Wall Speedwell— Gray-field Speedwell— Common Speedwell — 

 Lamb's Lettuce— Salad herbs — Ground Ivy — Fumitory— Ro- 

 bert-leaved Cranesbill— Beauty of meadows— Meadow Clover — 

 Dutch Clover— Shamrock— Valley of Sharon — Yellow Trefoil 

 — Hop Trefoil — Starry-headed Trefoil— Hare's-foot Trefoil — 

 Strawberry -headed Trefoil — Cowslip— Oxiip— Love of Nightin- 

 gale for Cowslip — Cuckoo flower— Autumnal Gentian— Field 

 Gentian — Heartsease — Scorpion Grass — Butter-bur— Hyacinth 

 — Oriental Hyacinth — Starch Hyacinth— Squill— Green Hel- 

 lebore — Stinking Hellebore — Guelder Rose — Box — Pasque 

 Flower— Wood Sorrel— Yellow wood Sorrel— Field Dock Sorrel 

 — Sheep's Sorrel— Sweet Wallflower — White Brjony- Sea-side 

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MAY. 



Spring woodlands — Tway blade — Brown-winged Orchis — Man 

 Orchis — Bee Orchis — Fly Orchis — Butterfly Orchis— Ladies' 

 Tresses — Strawberry Flower — Hautboy Strawberry — Lily ofthe 

 Valley — Solomon's Seal — Sweet Woodrufi'^Herb Paris- Bugle 

 — Spindle Tree — Dogwood— Black Currant— Red Currant — 

 Saintfoin — Moving Plant — Theory of seijsation in vegetables 

 — Knot Grass — Foxtail Grass— Reed meadow Grass — Butter- 

 cup — llawthoin — Old Suiicrstitions — Furze — Clematis — Bil- 

 berry — Whortleberry — Stitchwort — Periwinkle — Toadflax- 

 Wall Pellitory— Small Bugloss — Dyer's liugloss— Borage — 

 Comfrey — Lung- wort — Rest Harrow— Common Juniper — Bitter 

 Vetch — Comieille — Vetches— Red Pottage- Lady's Finger — 

 Hedge Mustard— Field Mustard — London Rocket — Peony — 

 Ills — Lychnis — Golden Saxifrage — Rue-leaved Saxifrage — 

 Meadow Saxifrage— London Pride— Dutch Myrtle . fO 



