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Capture the changing rhythms of nature, from autumnal decay to spring’s first blooms, through clear observations and lively insight.
Francis Darwin blends precise dates, natural history notes, and personal memory to illuminate how plants mark the year and why those markers matter. From Blomefield’s calendar to contemporary observations, the book invites readers to notice patterns, compare wind and insect pollination, and appreciate the link between seasonal life and evolutionary ideas.
- Discover how flowering dates vary and how temperature influences timing.
- Contrast wind-dertilised pollen with insect-assisted pollen spread.
- Encounter anecdotes about Hooker, Darwin, and the birth of modern science.
- Experience vivid scenes of gardens, travels, and laboratories that shaped botany.
Ideal for readers who love nature writing, botany, and scientific history.
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Then follow in order the flowers Of furze, hazel, winter aconite hellebore (h. Daisy, and snowdrop; so that the winter flowers make a most pleasant show, and tempt us to raise January to the rank of the first month of springtime - but we must allow the credit to be justly due to winter. In winter, too, we must be grateful to the ivy of the bare hedgerows shining in the sun, its leaves glistening like the simple jewels of a savage.
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Governesses used to tell us that the seasons of the year each consist of three months, and of these March, April, and May make the springtime. I should like to break the symmetry, and give February to spring, which would then include February, March, April, and May. It has been said that winter is but autumn "shyly shaking hands with spring." We will, accordingly, make winter a short link of two months - an autumnal and a vernal hand - December and January. It is a little sad for autumn to have to make room for chill November alongside of the happier months of September and October. But autumn is a season of decadence and cannot justly complain.
The autumnal flowers, which may be allowed to figure as a prelude to spring, are few in number. My favourite is lady's tresses (Spiranthes), so called from the spiral twist in its inflorescence, which suggests braided hair.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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