THE HAWTHORN. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



N English hedgerow — a hedgerow in the spring, when 

 elder tree and willow have already ffiven note of the 

 season in catkin and swelling bud — a hedgerow in June, 



girdling with a belt of fragrant white Hawthorn some 

 buttercup meadow — a hedgerow where the birds build, and their 

 young ones first hop and twitter, where insects hum, and beneath 

 which wild flowers and long grasses grow in careless and tangled 

 profusion — it is of all others a place about which to linger and 

 observe some of the countless phases of plant and animal life. For 



