CHAPTER XIV.. Yellow Flowers--Family Likeness in Flavours and Scents--_mimulus

Yellow flowers--Family likeness in flavours and scents--Mimulus luteus--Flowers in church decoration--Effect of association--Mimulus luteus as a British plant--A rule as to naturalised plants wanted--A visit to Swarraton--Changes since Gilbert White's day--"Wild musk"--Bird life on the downs--Turtle-dove nestlings--Blue skin in doves--A boy naturalist--Birds at the cottage--The wren's sun-bath--Wild fruits ripen--An old chalk pit--Birds and elderberries--Past and present times compared--Calm days--Migration of swallows--Conclusion.

{1}

HAMPSHIRE DAYS