FRUITFUL HEDGEROWS 113 



The softer and juicier berries form a dainty which is 

 gluttonously devoured very early in the season. At the 



WOODY NIGHTSHADE 



beginning of October the wandering missel-thrushes are 

 already stripping the heavy scarlet clusters of the mountain- 

 ash on the open hillsides, and raiding the trees in gardens 



DEADLY NIGHTSHADE 



with noisy oscillations of attack and flight. The missel- 

 thrushes are wise to be so greedy ; for the overweighted 



