CONTENTS 



WOODSIDE 



Morning in early June The road to Cobham Dickens' home Lesser cel- 

 andine Hedgeside inhabitants Scented violets The dog violet Fer- 

 tilization Cleistogamous flowers The wild cherry tree Ivy Aerial 

 spiders Weather prophets Distinction between spiders and insects 

 Different kinds of webs Anatomy of spider Spider's eyes Park 

 Pale The inhabitants of a pond The warty newt Metamorphoses of 

 the newt Insectivorous habits Relatives The hawthorn The mistle- 

 toe Its " hosts " in the Western counties Parasitical plants Smut 

 and ergot Structure of hawthorn flowers Red blossoms Old May- 

 day Setting the time right The thrush's nest Grass moths 

 Mimicry The ash tree Kentish wood clearings Charming pic- 

 tures Roses The different kinds of wild roses Structure of the 

 hip, apple and strawberry Garden roses Simplicity and complexity 

 in Nature Age of rose trees The bedeguar Plant galls Attar of 

 roses Perfumes of flowers Uses of odours to plants Sense of smell 

 in insects Sense of sight imperfect How the butterfly selects the right 

 food plant Unattractive flowers most strongly scented Ornamental 

 corollas Odours of leaves Genetic sequence in the colours of flowers- 

 Defensive odours The blue-tit and its nest Insectivorous birds The 

 Small Ermine moth Tortrices The Green Oak moth Peregrine 

 falcon The hawfinch Pheasants and quails The Bee Hawk moth 

 The gold-crest's nest The butcher bird Its method of slaughter 

 Shambles The Park Cobham " The Leather Bottle "A peaceful 

 spot The oak Invigorating effects of Spring Dioecious plants 

 Gigantic results from infinitesimal beginnings Lessons of the long 

 ago The squirrel and its nest A squirrel's diet Hybernation The 

 heronry Park Pale again Chestnuts Sheets of hyacinths Sunset and 

 nightfall Nocturnal wanderers Bats Night The barn owl and its 

 housekeeping Out of the woods The nebular hypothesis Stars and 

 planets-^Old memories Schoolboys and orchards Sunday Schools 

 and their teachers A rebellion Off to the woods Chestnuts The 

 keeper The Chase A paean of victory The difference in the morning 

 The horse-chestnut Recent changes Home pp. 1-76 



BUENSIDE 



Daybreak in the Highlands Sunrise A moss-grown bridge Tumbling 

 burn Larch wood and pine forest Loch Goil Ben Donich Breakfast 

 Carpet moths Natural selection Wooded dingles The bed of the 

 burn A thunderstorm in the Highlands Velocity of light and sound- 

 Roaring water Glencroe The mountain side Cotton grass Bogs- 

 Mountain mists How formed Mountain sheep Cloudland Preci- 

 pices The cairn Sea of summits Silver gleams The distant ocean- 

 Above the clouds The descent Fallen masses Mountain valleys- 

 Heather Loch Goil again Steamboat travelling Canny Scotchmen 

 Variable fares A fall Professional opinion Midges Action of run- 

 ning Water A sheet of rosy purple Erroneous ideas Different 

 kinds of heather Fertilization Honey gatherers Muir-burn Human 

 ignorance The aspen The rowan tree The Queen of the Woods 

 Polyporus Cataract and waterfall Naturalist instinct Ferns and 

 iv 



