. Next to the ground; chronicles of a countryside. Natural history. chapter III. N Tennessee, August is the ragged month, especially towards the end. Pas- tures, in the main, are bare and sun-baked ; the yel- lowed corn blades have begun to whip and tatter. If grasshoppers are plenty they eat the high corn-blades to the midrib while still they are green. In fields so eaten the whipping sounds like a battle of willow wands. Gardens lie waste and weedy, except in the late cabbage plots, and the sweet potato patches. But in the flower borders there is a fine riot of red and yellow, and pink and p
. Next to the ground; chronicles of a countryside. Natural history. chapter III. N Tennessee, August is the ragged month, especially towards the end. Pas- tures, in the main, are bare and sun-baked ; the yel- lowed corn blades have begun to whip and tatter. If grasshoppers are plenty they eat the high corn-blades to the midrib while still they are green. In fields so eaten the whipping sounds like a battle of willow wands. Gardens lie waste and weedy, except in the late cabbage plots, and the sweet potato patches. But in the flower borders there is a fine riot of red and yellow, and pink and purple, with now and then a blotch of white. Verbenas, petunias, phlox, geraniums, nas- turtiums, are, each and several, the real sun- flowers. The sun never shines too white-hot for them. They live but to meet such shin- ing, and stretch out stems almost fabulously. 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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