. Next to the ground; chronicles of a countryside. Natural history. Chapter XIV. |HE earth hath in it the virtue of all ; Thus saith an ancient worthy. No doubt he had in mind the quick spring earth, washed clean by peniten- tial floods, poignantly alive with the livening of the frost. Even the smell of it is vital — especially waterside earth. As you inhale it you cease to marvel at the forwardness of waterside growth. Trees of every sort there are half in leaf when their kin-folk upland are barely bud- ded. As for the low things, shrubby alders and slim honey-dew trees, they stir
. Next to the ground; chronicles of a countryside. Natural history. Chapter XIV. |HE earth hath in it the virtue of all ; Thus saith an ancient worthy. No doubt he had in mind the quick spring earth, washed clean by peniten- tial floods, poignantly alive with the livening of the frost. Even the smell of it is vital — especially waterside earth. As you inhale it you cease to marvel at the forwardness of waterside growth. Trees of every sort there are half in leaf when their kin-folk upland are barely bud- ded. As for the low things, shrubby alders and slim honey-dew trees, they stir before the swallow dares even to dream of flight and take earlier than March winds with their beauty. The honey-dew tree is hardly a tree at all, seldom gaining a height of fifteen feet. The bark is smoothish and silver-gray, 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 McCulloch-Williams, Martha, b. ca. 1857. New York, McClure, Philips & Co.
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