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AUTUMN AND WINTER 



autumn-sown corn. The ivy is the only one of our native 

 plants which has not begun to set seed or finished setting seed 

 when September is in its course ; and its seeds will not be 

 dispersed till the pigeons, which now come to us in great 

 flocks on the eve of winter, fall to work on this favourite 

 food. 



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