In New England Fields and WoodsHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 287 sayfa |
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Sayfa 91 - ... wild bees from hollow tree and scant woodside gleaning to a wealth of honey gathering, and all the hivedwellers from their board-built homes to a finer and sweeter pillage than is offered by the odorous white sea of buckwheat. Half the flowers of wood and fields are out of bloom. Herdsgrass, clover and daisy are falling before the mower. The early grain fields have already caught the color of the sun, and the tasseling corn rustles its broad leaves above the rich loam that the woodcock delights...
Sayfa 91 - ... and wild and picturesque are his, yet he kills them not, but makes them a living and enduring joy, to himself and all who behold them. 90 XXI JULY DAYS The woods are dense with full-grown leafage. Of all the trees, only the basswood has delayed its blossoming, to crown the height of summer and fill the sun-steeped air with a perfume that calls all the wild bees from hollow tree and scant woodside...
Sayfa 43 - ... stock that has so few care-takers, so many enemies ? Certainly, it does not pay in the long run. 42 X THE GARTER-SNAKE WHEN the returned crows have become such familiar objects in the forlorn unclad landscape of early spring that they have worn out their first welcome, and the earliest songbirds have come to stay in spite of inhospitable weather that seems for days to set the calendar back a month, the woods invite you more than the fields. There nature is least under man's restraint and gives...
Sayfa 91 - ... trees, only the basswood has delayed its blossoming, to crown the height of summer and fill the sun-steeped air with a perfume that calls all the wild bees from hollow tree and scant woodside gleaning to a wealth of honey gathering, and all the hive-dwellers from their board-built homes to a finer and sweeter pillage than is offered by the odorous white sea of buckwheat. Half the flowers of wood and fields are out of bloom.