CONTENTS. IX 



Horse-chesnut — Beauty of June weather — Universal 

 life, greenness and vigour — Gardens in their prime — 



Summer pleasures — Delicious evenings — Mowing 



Green Fruits — Grasses in flower — Hay-harvest commenc- 

 ing — Summer Floods — Sheep-shearing, its ancient fes- 

 tivities — Wild Flowers and their old names — Holy Flow- 

 ers — June, its name — Midsummer Flowers — Fern Owl — 

 Rural Occupations — Angling — Migration of Birds Ca- 

 lendar of Garden Flowers — Botanical and Entomological 

 Calendars . . . . .133 



July. Characteristics — Hay-harvest — Remarks on old 

 sports— Progress of knowledge — Silence of Birds— Boys 

 taking Wasps' nests— Hornets— Twining Plants— Sum- , 

 mer Flowers— The pleasantness and beauty, and the 

 curious productions of Heaths — Woods — The Bird-Boy 

 —Field-paths — Their pleasant associations — Picturesque 

 characters— Poets and Field-paths — Paths among the 

 Mountains— Stiles and their varieties — The Domine and 

 the Turnstile — Gradual disappearance of Field-paths — 

 Encroachments of the rich upon the poor — July, its name 

 —Periodica] appearances, animal and vegetable — Rural 

 Occupations— Angling — Migration of Birds — Calendar of 

 Garden Flowers — Botanical and Entomological Calen- 

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August. Characteristics— Corn-harvest — Pleasant scenes 

 in the harvest field — Picturesque features of Harvest as 

 given in the Bible — Harvesters — Harvest-home — Har- 

 vest-moon — Second budding of Trees — Refreshed ver- 

 dure and flowers of the Fields — Singular preservation of 

 Seeds in the earth— Aquatic vegetation— Habits of the 

 Water-rat — The Land-rail— Combat between a Rabbit 

 and Weasel — Young Frogs — Mushrooms— Hedge-fruit 

 — White Fogs — Sea-side Rambles — Field sports — Re- 

 markable appearance of clouds, August 1827 — August, 

 its name — Periodical appearances in the month Hop- 



