ILLUSTRATIONS 



Rabbits . .... . PAGE 62 



A bank of primroses .... .65 



Orange tip butterfly ..... .66 



Orange tip butterfly on lady's smock . . 67 



An early spring morning in the oak grove . 69 



Flowers of larch tree and cones . . 70 



Kingcups .... 71 



Royal kingcups are ablaze . 72 



A bank of nodding thistles . 75 



SnakeVhead .... .76 



Fritillary showing tessellated interior . 76 



Fritillaria meleagris ... 77 



A group of imperial cousins (crown-imperials, red and 



yellow) in the border . . .78 



Young unpleating beech leaves . . 81 



Young beech leaves ... .83 



The young unpleating leaves of beech trees ... 84 

 Cattle grazing in the evening .... .87 



Cowslips ......... 88 



Hunch-backed bunnies advance ..... 88 



An Arab's prayer in the desert ..... 90 



Single flower of bean . . . . . . .97 



Field bean 97 



Flower of Ccelogyne pandurata ..... 98 



Merveille-du-jour moth ....... 99 



Merveille-du-jour moth on lichened oak bark ... 99 

 Beetles (Timarcha tenebricosa) ..... 100 



Oaks are half-leaf clad, all catkin -hung . . . .101 



A giant of Nature's garden . . . . . .103 



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