Identifier: birdsnature131903chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ole, and hair. Living under ground all its or- George Bancroft Griffith. A GOLFING CLERGYMAN. In the damp woods, where the wild things grow. Jack in the Pulpit holds forth, you know, Drapper and clerical, fair to be seen, Clothed in his gown of well fitting green. Demure Quaker ladies sit at his feet. While timid young violets take a back seat. His eloquence pleases, for see, as he talks, The dainty anemones sway on their stalks. But visit him once in the fall of the year. And you cant but admit that our preacher looks queer. So fat and so rubicund, jolly and gay, Hard work must agree with him, or is it play? His pulpit has vanished, his audience too, And Jack wears a coat of a bright scarlet hue. He must be a golfer, and plays without doubt. With the tiny puff balls you see scattered about. Perhaps hes a smoker, for there at his side An Indian pipe hes trying to hide! But never mind, Jacky; Im able to state, Though you live in the woods, you are quite up to date. Bessie Andrews Dana.
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BY PERMISBION OF KNIGHT A MILLET, BOSTON. 576 COMMON CLEMATIS.(Clematis virginiana) FROM WILD PLOWEDS OF NORTH AUtNtOI.COPtRIBHt 1078, Sr B. I. C*SStNO, toeTON, TWO BEAUTIFUL VINES. There are two vines which we can findin our wild woods, that are as pretty andunusual as any exotic brought from for-eign land. We may praise and admirethe purple Japanese Clematis whichmakes our yards and lawns so beautifulwithits great masses of brilliantblossomin July and August, but it is not a whitmore beautiful than the Clematis virgini-ana or Virgins Bbwer; or the Clematisviorna or Leather Flower, would be, ifthey, too, were transplanted from theirnative woods and tended and fostered byloving care. The Virgins Bower is get-ting to be a rather popular vine in culti-vation, and there is no more lovely sightthan to come upon in our walks anddrives large quantities of either of thesevarieties of Clematis. The Clematis viorna, or Leather Flow-er, is more frequently found in rich darkplaces,, though I hav

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