. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. 28 My Garden Summer-Seat. hedgerow. And yet he is so fond of insects, of which he is in search at present in that apple tree, that I am not sure if he does not present an illustration of a degenerate taste. Primarily, no doubt, he took only those buds which were already doomed by the presence of a minute grub; but gradually, as food in some seasons was scarce, he came to form a liking for the bud itself (are not all artificial tastes, indeed, formed in this very way ?), and so has gone on ever since, and has beco
. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. 28 My Garden Summer-Seat. hedgerow. And yet he is so fond of insects, of which he is in search at present in that apple tree, that I am not sure if he does not present an illustration of a degenerate taste. Primarily, no doubt, he took only those buds which were already doomed by the presence of a minute grub; but gradually, as food in some seasons was scarce, he came to form a liking for the bud itself (are not all artificial tastes, indeed, formed in this very way ?), and so has gone on ever since, and has become the victim of a depraved appe- tite. He is so pretty, and bright, and sweet in voice, though by no means a rich or connected singer, if with a latent gift for mimicry that may be highly developed (the beauty, par excellence, for me among the finches}, that I really would not like to believe all I hear of him, any more than of my next-door neighbour. The shy, retiring, hawthorn-loving hawfinch, too, I sometimes see, and now and then a greenfinch will visit me for some of \, : • v my wilding seeds, * v\. E= and, occasionally, the now, alas! too rare and beautiful gold- finch steals in fur- tively to taste, and flutter afterwards in the thistles. With thrushes and blackbirds my garden is literally overrun; they build in the ivy and in the taller trees, and, as they are not frightened off, come from a dis- tance ; and, bold and destructive though they are, I do not have the heart to destroy them : only they cost. GREEN Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay), 1839-1905. New York, Macmillan & Co.
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