INDEX. 



285 



Snowdrop, the, G9 a melan- 

 choly flower, 70. 



Soil, of tho parish in which the 

 author resides, 12 various 

 sorts of, 20 analysis of, use- 

 less, ibid picking soil off 

 grass lands a bad custom, 40. 



Song of birds. See Birds. 



Sparrow, the hedge, 109 the 

 common, 149. 



Spottings, on apples, 255 on 

 strawberry leaves, 257. 



Starling, the common, 139 the 

 brown, 142. 



Steaming of the earth, 269. 



Stinldng phallus, the, 92. 



Stormy petrel, the, 135. 



Strontian, 16. 



Sulphur butterfly, 74. 



Sun-dew, destructive to insects, 

 61. 



Superstition, 222. 230. 



Swallows, their nests, 123 kill- 

 ed in wanton sport, 155. 



Sycamore tree, singularity of its 

 leaves, 89. 



Teasel, its cultivation, 35 its 

 profits, 37 its uses, 39. 



Thorn, the white, uniform in its 

 blossoming, 145. 



Thrush, the solitary, 142 the 

 common, 147 the missel, 175 

 song of, 188. 



Timidity of animals, 176. 



Tokens. See Prognostications. 



Tom-tit, or tit-mouse, the little 

 blue, rewards for the destruc- 

 tion of, 117 perishes in se- 

 vere winters, 118 the long- 

 tailed, 120 instance of its 

 intelligence in the care of its 

 young, 124. 



Traveller's joy, name given to 

 the wild clematis, 81. 



Trees, attractors of humidity, 

 48 condense fogs, 49 ver- 

 dure beneath, ibid miscliicf 

 of pollarding them, 267, 



Tree-creeper, tho, 167. 

 Turnip, singularly decorated 



one, as a holiday amusement, 



247. 



Uredo, tho two-fronted, a sub- 

 stance attached to the leaves 

 of the laurel, 89. 



Vermin, parish reward for the 

 destruction of, 117. 



Vervain, 71 respect paid of 

 old to this plant, ibid its 

 supposed powers and quali- 

 ties, 72. 



Village clubs, 57. 



Wagtail, yellow, the, 168. 



Wald, or wold, the dyers' weed 

 so called, 72.' 



Want, the, 104. 



Wasp, the common, 199 the 

 solitary, 226 its nest, ibid. 



Water, stagnated and putres- 

 cent, favorable for the resi- 

 dence of insects, 215. 



Water-flea, 216. 



Water-shrew, 102. 



Wheat, crops of, method of 

 saving, 26. 



Wheatear, the, 154. 



Whirly pits, what, 252. 



Willow tree, 269. 



Winds and weather,* old tokens 

 of, 174. 180 saline winds a 

 supposed cause of blight, 

 254. 



Winter, the season of, depicted 

 270. 



Woodlark, the, 184. 



Woodlouse, 214. 



Worm, the hair, 226 the com- 

 mon, 231. 



Wren, the willow, 110 the 

 golden-crested, 118. 122 the 

 common, instance of its 

 stratagem to preserve its nest, 

 163. 



Wryneck, Uie, 137. 



