X CONTENTS. 



gathering — Tusser's rales for Hop Grounds — Origin of 

 Fairy Rings — Rural Occupations — Angling — Migration 

 of Birds — Calendar of Garden Flowers — Botanical and 

 Entomological Calendars . . .211 



September. Lays of the Seasons, No. 3, Autumn — Sports- 

 man's preparations, his pleasures, his unconscious love of 

 Nature, his picturesque haunts — The Hunter, a poem — 

 Mountains, their effect on the imagination, on the cha- 

 racter of their inhabitants — On the liberty of Nations — 

 Lonely and simple life among Mountains — The magni- 

 ficence and variety in Mountain scenery — Geometric 

 Spider — Gossamer — Beauty of Autumnal landscape — 

 The transparency of the Atmosphere — Swallows preparing 

 for departure — Singing of young Birds — Nutting — Vil- 

 leggiatura — Description of a Nutting excursion — Fungi, 

 their beauty and variety — September, its name — Saffron 

 — Apple-gathering — Sea-side — Beauty of submarine pro- 

 ductions — Rural Occupations — Angling — Migration of 

 Birds — Calendar of Garden Flowers — Botanical and En- 

 tomological Calendars .... 239 



October. Characteristics — Autumnal glooms — Orchards 

 cleared of fruit — Splendour of wood scenery — Delights of 

 the Woods — Estimation of woods among the Ancients 

 — Poetical Associations of Woods — Beauty of Trees, 

 their effect upon the mind of certain great men — Trees 

 as mentioned in the Bible — Celebrated Trees of modern 

 times — Devotional influence of Woods — Gorgeous ap- 

 pearance of Woods previous to the fall of the leaf — The 

 Green-wood, a poem — October, its name — Dissemination 

 of plants, curious contrivances in seeds for that purpose — 

 Rural Occupations — Angling — Migration of Birds — Ca- 

 lendar of Garden Flowers — Botanical Calendar . 269 



November. Gloom of November — Ossian — Storms and 

 Mists — Introduction to complete Winter — Desolate as- 

 pect of Gardens — Influence of the Season on different 



