CONTENTS 
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Yellow Vetchling — Beauty of Streams 
in the Country — Chickling Vetch — 
T uberous - rooted Tea — U se of its 
Tubers in Holland — Leguminous 
Tlants — Bloom — ■ Laburnum — Field 
Bean — Melilot ~ Trefoils — Coral Tree 
— Decanne Bean — Mimosa — Judas 
Tree — Moving Saintfoin, ... ... 7/5 
Chapter XI. — 
Snowdrop — Snows of Winter — Ancient Name 
of Snowdrop — ■ Snowdrop consecrated 
to the Virgin Mary — Snowflake — 
Guernsey Lily — Narcissus — Dafodil 
— Poefs Narcissus, ... ... 725 
Chapter XII. — 
Crocus — Aspect of Garden during Winter — 
Garden Crocus — Meadow Crocus — 
Crocus in Greece — In Saffron Walden 
— U ses of Saffron in the East — Yellow 
Eye of several Tlants— Mode of sell- 
ing Safron in Greece — Yellow Iris, ijo 
Chapter XIII. — 
Hawthorn — Month of May — Love of Flowers 
— May-day — Ancient Ceremonies of 
this Day — Pink Hawthorn — Univers- 
ality of Hawthorn Tree — Glastonbury 
Thorn — Beauty of Fruit Blossoms — 
Fruits — Mountain Ash — Mountain 
Ash planted by Druids, ... ... 1^6 
Chapter XIV. — 
Anemone, or Wind-flower — Music of Nature 
— Wood Anemone — Blue Mountain 
Anemone — Basque - flower Anemone — 
Wild Yellow Anemone — Naturalisa- 
tion of Foreign Tlants — Corn Cockle 
Fumitory — Garden Anemones, ... 14 j 
Chapter XV. — 
Scarlet Pimpernel — Corn-field — Singing dur- 
ing Rural Labour — Closing of Pim- 
pernel — Natural Indications of Atmos- 
pheric Changes — Siberian Sow-thistle 
— Blue Pimpernel at Madeira — Bog 
Pimpernel — Garden Pimpernel, ... 752 
