Ash-stoles, the buds on whose boughs in spring are hidden under black sheaths; nut-tree stoles, with ever-welcome nuts--always stolen here, but on the Downs, where they are plentiful, staying till they fall; young oak growing up from the butt of a felled tree.

On these oak-twigs sometimes, besides the ordinary round galls, there may be found another gall, larger, and formed, as it were, of green scales one above the other.
Where shall we find in the artificial and, to my thinking, tasteless pleasure-grounds of modern houses so beautiful a shrubbery as this old hedgerow?
Nor were evergreens wanting, for the ivy grew thickly, and there was one holly-bush--not more, for the soil was not affected by holly.

The tall cow-parsnip or 'gicks' rose up through the bushes; the great hollow stem of the angelica grew at the edge of the field, on the verge of the grass, but still sheltered by the brambles.

Some reeds early in spring thrust up their slender green tubes, tipped with two spear-like leaves.

The reed varies in height according to the position in which it grows.