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stitions regarding the insect voice Great water-beetle its habits and 

 voracity Hair worm its object Nests of a solitary wasp Hornets 

 their abundance at times, and voracity kill each other Garden snail 

 its injuries generally secure from destruction faculties small banded 

 snails their numbers superstitions concerning them Earth-worms 

 numbers of the prey of all creatures utility of drain watery soils 

 Inattention to the works of Providence Page 18U 225 



mpiricism Apple-tree blight progress injury White moss rose Tes 

 tacellus halotidens Cure of the American blight Effect of season on 

 the vegetation Destruction of grass roots Honey -dew Injury to foliage 

 by small moths Salt winds Leasing its profits an innocent occupa- 

 tion ordained by the Almighty Old customs wearing out May-poles 

 Christmassing Kitchen bushes young holly-trees Singular conceit 

 Influence of electric atmosphere on vegetation Anecdote of the finding 

 of a guinea Hummings in the air Fairy rings Spring changes 

 Periodical winds Whirly pits Sinkings in the earth Lichen fascicu- 

 laris Salt winds destructive of vegetation Spottings on apples 

 spottings on strawberry leaves^-curious agaric Curious analogy between 

 plants and animated beings 235 259 



The year 1825 its peculiarities and influences A speedy method of killing 

 insects Preserving of insects Pollarding of trees most injurious 

 Insects that destroy the ash The willow rarely seen as a tree a fine 

 one near Gloucester Foggy morning Reeking of the earth the cause 

 and utility Winter of the year Ice in pools Law of nature Winter 

 called a dull season Nature actively employed Exhausting powers ob- 

 served in the air A minute vegetable product 259 279 



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NOTES Names for Rural Dwellings Wild Potato Wych Elm Carpenter 

 Bee Rose Beetle Dyers' Broom Carniverous Plant Ivy Snowdrop- 

 Vervain Mistletoe Dyers' Weed Brimstone Butterfly Furze Maple- 

 Agarics Marten Hedgehog Mole Shrew. BIRDS OF ENOLA.VD ; Rook- 

 Linnet Bullfinch House-sparrow Jay Wood-dove Kestrel House 

 marten Rock-pigeon Magpie Wryneck Jackdaw Thrush Missel- 

 thrush Blackbird Cuckoo Wren Halcyon Wagtail Swift Goat- 

 suckerBustard Grous Titmouse Starling Fieldfare Raven House 

 Fly Robin Goldfinch Sky-lark Winter^Gnat Butterflies and Moths 

 Glow-worm glow-worm Dorr, or Clock-beetle Death's-head Moth 

 American Blight Holly Provincialisms Fairy Rings JEcidium Pol- 

 larding Trees Ice Floating, 281330 





