INDEX. 
Snowdrop, the, 69 a melan- 
choly flower, 70. 
Soil, of the parish in which the 
author resides, 12 — various 
sorts of, 20 — analysis of, use- 
less, ibid — picking soil off 
grass lands a bad custom, 40. 
Song of birds. See Birds. 
Sparrow, the hedge, 109 — the 
common, 149. 
Spottings, on apples, 255 — on 
strawberry leaves, 257. 
Starling, the common, 139 — the 
brown, 142. 
Steaming of the earth, 269. 
Stinking phallus, the, 92. 
Stormy petrel, the, 135. 
Strontian, 16. 
Sulphur butterfly, 74. 
Sun-dew, destructive to insects, 
61. 
Superstition, 222. 230. 
Swallows, their nests, 123 — kill- 
ed in wanton sport, 155. 
Sycamore tree, singularity of its 
leaves, 89. 
Teasel, its cultivation, 35— its 
profits, 37 — its uses, 39. 
Thorn, the white, uniform in its 
blossoming, 145. 
Thrush, the solitary, 142 — the 
common, 147— -the missel, 175 
— song of, 188, - 
Timidity of animals, 176. 
Tokens. See Prognostications. 
Tom-tit, or tit-mouse, the little 
blue, rewards for the destruc- 
tion of, 117 — perishes in se- 
vere winters, 118 — the long- 
tailed, 120 — instance of its 
intelligence in the care of its 
young, 124. 
Traveller’s joy, name given to 
the wild clematis, 81. 
Trees, attractors of humidity, 
48 — condense fogs, 49 — ver- 
dure beneath, ibid — mischief 
of pollarding them, 267. 
285 
Tree-creeper, the, 167. 
Turnip, singularly decorated 
one, as a holiday amusement, 
247. 
Uredo, the two-fronted, a sub- 
stance attached to the leaves 
of the laurel, 89. 
Vermin, parish reward for the 
destruction of, 117. 
Vervain, 71 —respect paid of 
old to this plant, ibid — its 
supposed powers and quali- 
ties, 72. 
Village clubs, 57. 
Wagtail, yellow, the, 168. 
Wald, or wold, the dyers’ weed 
so called, 72. 
Want, the, 104. 
Wasp, the common, 199 — the 
solitary, 226 — its nest, ibid. 
Water, stagnated and putres- 
cent, favorable for the resi- 
dence of insects, 215. 
Water-flea, 216. 
Water-shrew, 102. 
Wheat, crops of, method of 
saving, 26. 
Wheatear, the, 154. 
Whirly pits, what, 252* 
Willow tree, 269. 
Winds and weather, old tokens 
of, 174. 180— saline winds a 
supposed cause of blight, 
254. 
Winter, the season of, depicted 
270. 
Woodlark, the, 184. 
Woodlouse, 214. 
Worm, the hair, 226 — -the com- 
mon, 231. 
Wren, the willow, 110 — the 
golden-crested, 118. 122— the 
common, instance of its 
stratagem to preserve its nest, 
163, 
Wryneck, the, 137. 
