This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... Of insects breeding in the rocks; whilst where clear streamlets flow, The water-aven's brilliant blossoms make a gallant show Near sun-kissed willow trees, round which an odour of the rose, In garb of gold and emerald, the musky beetle throws! Below the hedge the quaint brown blooms of hound's tongue scatter ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... Of insects breeding in the rocks; whilst where clear streamlets flow, The water-aven's brilliant blossoms make a gallant show Near sun-kissed willow trees, round which an odour of the rose, In garb of gold and emerald, the musky beetle throws! Below the hedge the quaint brown blooms of hound's tongue scatter free A mice like odour that repels the honey-questing bee; Which also flies the poppy, and its cup of shining red, For the safer mallows' lilac flowers, by every roadside spread." "Oh, thank you, Miss Amy," said Susan Hart, whose father was the gardener at the Lawns, a large place situated near Ashdown Rectory, "how real and true, thank you for reading it, it is' so nice and real like; I wish, Miss, you would be so good as to read these lines to father, he would be right pleased with them, I know." "You may have them if you like. I fancy we shall see that you have many of the flowers which Calder Campbell mentions. The water and boggy specimens we must gather on our way home; if the bog does not prove too treacherous. I am half afraid we may not be able to oross it. Since the last rains; I have not been by the river that way." "Oh, please Miss," said Susan, "father went that way last evening, and he says the bog is quite firm. "I should not wonder if that is owing to the menyanthus, which is so abundant close by the river." "Men--, what did Miss Amy say?" whispered one of the girls. "You know the plant mentioned by its English name, I dare say, buckbean (or bogbean some call it). It is a marsh trefoil, one of xrar handsomest aquatic plants--aquatic means water." "I think I know it, Miss, and I, and I," answered several voices. "The roots of it are so creeping and matted that, when it grows in any quantity, they often render the boggy ground...
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