. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. CHAPTER XXXVI. MONTHLY CALENDAB. § 1.—Aspect of the Month. 2072. November, according to the quaint Peachum already quoted, "is drawn with a garment of change- '^Vx^\ ^^^^ green, and has black upon his head" to typify the dark and dreary clouds which hang over the gloomy November landscape. The atmosphere during this month is saturated with moisture, dense mists and fogs abound, and gloomy boisterous weather, as a rule, prevails. The leaves of the beeches are chan
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. CHAPTER XXXVI. MONTHLY CALENDAB. § 1.—Aspect of the Month. 2072. November, according to the quaint Peachum already quoted, "is drawn with a garment of change- '^Vx^\ ^^^^ green, and has black upon his head" to typify the dark and dreary clouds which hang over the gloomy November landscape. The atmosphere during this month is saturated with moisture, dense mists and fogs abound, and gloomy boisterous weather, as a rule, prevails. The leaves of the beeches are changing their green hue for the purplish chestnut autumnal shade. The mean temperature is about 42° Fahr,, but the thermometer ranges between 23° and 62°. The mean tempera- ture of the earth one foot deep is 46 01°; at two feet, 47*28°; that of the air being 42'98% on an average of the years 1844 to 1853. " In the stormy east wind straining, The pale yellow woods are waning, The broad stream in its bank complaining, Beavily is the low sky raining.*' What a roaring there is now in the woods; what a rattling of branches and clashing together of great grey iron boughs that seem to groan again in their mighty agony, as the storm tries to tear them from their gnarled and knotty stems. There is something grand about the great November wind lifting up its mighty voice, and pealing, organ-like, through those ancient catliedrals of. 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 Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831-1877; Shaw, Henry ; from the library of and initials?. London : S. O. Beeton
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