Round-panicled 

 CocKs-foot Grass. 



Here, a* the swarthy mowers paw 

 Slow through the tall and russet grasc. 

 In marshafl'd rank from side to side, 

 With circling strokeandmeasur'd stride, 

 Before the Scythe's wide-sweeping sway 

 The russet meadow's tll array 

 Falls, and the bristly surface strows 

 With the brown swathe's successive rows. 

 BISHOP MANX'S British Months. 



Sweef-seenfed 

 Vernal Grass. 



HAYMAKING is the most delightful of all rural occupa- 

 tions. It is carried on in the " very spring and play- 

 time of the year," when the fields and meadows and 

 lanes are covered with a rich carpet of grass sprinkled 

 with wild flowers ; when hedges are blushing with dog- 

 roses, and fragrant with woodbine ; when young oaks 

 are clad in tender green, and the rest of the trees are 

 every day getting richer and deeper in their colouring ; 

 when crops are springing and flourishing, and groves 

 are resounding with the song of birds ; and when the 

 cuckoo's mellow voice blends pleasingly with all the 

 lovely sights and sounds of nature. 



