. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. 42 My Garden Summer-Seat. chaffinch might probably make use of it too. On my return to Europe I watched a chaffinch busy at its nest. It left it, and flew to an old wall and took a cobweb from it, then conveyed it to its nest, and inter- wove it with the lichen on the outside of ; The little busy goldcrest, very unlike the wren family, to which he is related, in personal appearance, goes about his -fT^C business in a care- ful cheerful man- ner, and at the hot hours of noon in summer days sends out soft b
. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. 42 My Garden Summer-Seat. chaffinch might probably make use of it too. On my return to Europe I watched a chaffinch busy at its nest. It left it, and flew to an old wall and took a cobweb from it, then conveyed it to its nest, and inter- wove it with the lichen on the outside of ; The little busy goldcrest, very unlike the wren family, to which he is related, in personal appearance, goes about his -fT^C business in a care- ful cheerful man- ner, and at the hot hours of noon in summer days sends out soft bursts of song, when else silence would almost reign in garden or wood. His tiny nest is hung on the end of the high branch of that cedar tree on the lawn, and so neatly that, looking from below, you could hardly see it, the feathery ends of the needles falling round it. What a delight the bees have found in these fox- gloves, which seem as if nature constructed them to show what she could do in building a perfect floral pyramid, or perhaps more properly, floral obelisk, and to afford a ceaseless series of newly unfolded flowers through a whole season. Unlike the grand builders of the Nile, she does not aim at hard permanence here; but she combines what they did not and could not do, per- fection of line and curve, and ceaseless change in sweet gradation. They are now losing the lower flowers that pale off and shrink away, while those at the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay), 1839-1905. New York, Macmillan & Co.
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