They hide stores of these crabs in holes in the hayricks, supposing them to improve by keeping.

There, too, they conceal quantities of the apples from the old orchards, for the fruit in them is often almost as hard and not much superior in flavour to the crab.

These apples certainly become more mellow after several months in the warm hay.
A wild 'plum,' or bullace, grew in one place; the plum about twice the size of a sloe, with a bloom upon the skin like the cultivated fruit, but lacking its sweetness.

Yet there was a distinct difference of taste: the 'plum' had not got the extreme harshness of the sloe.

A quantity of dogwood occupied a corner; in summer it bore a pleasing flower; in the autumn, after the black berries appeared upon it, the leaves became a rich bronze colour, and some when the first frosts touched them curled up at the edge and turned crimson.