. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. Poppies. 17 (to which esculent, I confess, I have however been fully converted in the South), and he said, " In Scot- land I have eaten nettles, slept on nettle-sheets, and dined off a nettle ; The fibre is, however, much more difficult to prepare for weaving than that of the flax, otherwise it might have found much more favour as a fabric. But the more one looks into matters, the more one is convinced that in nature there are no " neer-do-weels," as, alas! there are in the human f
. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. Poppies. 17 (to which esculent, I confess, I have however been fully converted in the South), and he said, " In Scot- land I have eaten nettles, slept on nettle-sheets, and dined off a nettle ; The fibre is, however, much more difficult to prepare for weaving than that of the flax, otherwise it might have found much more favour as a fabric. But the more one looks into matters, the more one is convinced that in nature there are no " neer-do-weels," as, alas! there are in the human family. And I also allow a thistle or two. I have, alas! none of the true Scottish thistle, which, when Burns found " Spreading wide, among the bearded bear, He turned the weeding clips aside And spared the symbol dear," but only a few of the milk thistle, which is, however, very beautiful, with its streaks of white on the leaves from which it takes its name. I have also a few poppies, flaunting red in their season, and later displaying their semi- globular seed-head, which gently rattles when shaken, like a toy-drum, the very type and symbol of gay society—the last of a race which it took long to ex- tirpate from the garden, and which are now, like the Iberians of Spain, pushed into the remotest corner, and tolerated poppy. and ruthlessly kept down even there. But he were a very churl of propriety and utilitarianism, who would not allow a representative of the wondrous sleep- inducing papavers in such a plot, to remind him of so much of Homer and the poets, and one secret of mysterious might in the modern pharmacopoeia, and also of the wreck of many geniuses in later days— B. 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 &
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