ILLUSTRATIONS 



Evening sunlight on bluebell wood . . FRONTISPIECE 



Reproduction of colour photof/raph 



Field gate post with ivy . . . . . . PAGE 4 



From where the daisies at our feet stretch out to sunlit 



hills 6 



The murmuring brook ....... 8 



Starling . . . . . . . . . .11 



Dog's mercury ...... 12 



Alder catkins ...... 13 



Sallow buds .... . 13 



Lamb's-tails ..... ... 14 



Great tits feeding on cocoanut . . . .16 



Winter sun on grey boled oaks and ruddy steins of pine . 18 



A burden scar ...... 19 



The top of the burden scar ...... 20 



The silver-white of birch ...... 21 



Elm in flower ...... 22 



Pussy buds of goat willow ...... 22 



In the tops of the giant elms there is a thickening of the 



twigs 23 



The fringe of the desert . . . . . . .25 



Date palm oasis ........ 26 



Cyclamen africanum ....... 28 



Cyclamen neapolitanum ....... 30 



Cyclamen neapolitanum growing against the bole of large 



elm tree ..... 30 



