Part 35

Tokens. See Prognostications.

Tom-tit, or titmouse, the little blue, rewards for the destruction of, 117

— perishes in severe winters, 118

— the long-tailed, 120

— instance of its intelligence in the care of its young, 124.

Traveller’s joy, name given to the wild clematis, 81.

Trees, attractors of humidity, 48

— condense fogs, 49

— verdure beneath, ibid

— mischief of pollarding them, 267.

Tree-creeper, the, 167.

Turnip, singularly decorated one, as a holiday amusement, 247.

Uredo, the two-fronted, a substance attached to the leaves of the laurel, 89.

Vermin, parish reward for the destruction of, 117.

Vervain, 71

— respect paid of old to this plant, ibid.

— its supposed powers and qualities, 72.

Village clubs, 57.

Wagtail, yellow, the, 168.

Wald, or wold, the dyers’ weed so called, 72.

Want, the, 104.

Wasp, the common, 199

— the solitary, 226

— its nest, ibid.

Water, stagnated and putrescent, favorable for the residence of insects, 215.

Water-flea, 216.

Water shrew, 102.

Wheat, crops of, method of saving, 26.