Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page vi
... yellow woods and days serene ; And when we've gathered in the harvest's treasure , The long nights bring us round the blazing hearth , The chosen haunt of every social pleasure . Land of green fields and flowers ! Thou givest birth To ...
... yellow woods and days serene ; And when we've gathered in the harvest's treasure , The long nights bring us round the blazing hearth , The chosen haunt of every social pleasure . Land of green fields and flowers ! Thou givest birth To ...
Page 61
... yellow , or crimson , or purple flowers , but it is usually an oasis of colour in a desert of verdure , and therefore hardly affects the general aspect of the vegetation . The equatorial forest is too gloomy for flowers , or generally ...
... yellow , or crimson , or purple flowers , but it is usually an oasis of colour in a desert of verdure , and therefore hardly affects the general aspect of the vegetation . The equatorial forest is too gloomy for flowers , or generally ...
Page 63
... yellow , pink , or white , that have fallen from some invisible tree - top above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume , the source of which one seeks around in vain , for the flowers that cause it are far overhead out of ...
... yellow , pink , or white , that have fallen from some invisible tree - top above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume , the source of which one seeks around in vain , for the flowers that cause it are far overhead out of ...
Page 64
... yellow , white , pink , or more rarely of blue colour , indicating the position of handsome flowering trees . The well - established relation between coloured flowers and the need of insects to fertilize them , may perhaps be connected ...
... yellow , white , pink , or more rarely of blue colour , indicating the position of handsome flowering trees . The well - established relation between coloured flowers and the need of insects to fertilize them , may perhaps be connected ...
Page 73
... In others we have contrasted bands of blue and orange , or of crimson and green , or of silky yellow relieved by velvety black . In not a few the wings are powdered over with scales and spangles of metallic green , deepen- BUTTERFLIES . 73.
... In others we have contrasted bands of blue and orange , or of crimson and green , or of silky yellow relieved by velvety black . In not a few the wings are powdered over with scales and spangles of metallic green , deepen- BUTTERFLIES . 73.
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