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Lore of Sweet Odors by Eliza Calvert Hall
Summer EveningI had thought myself deeply learned in the lore of sweet odors. I know that the orient spells of sandalwood can intoxicate like the opium-pipe or the draft of Indian hemp. I know the...
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Pennyroyal Time by Eliza Calvert Hall
Mentha pulegium -- PennyroyalPennyroyal Time by Eliza Calvert HallI Walked slowly down the " big road " that Sunday afternoon— slowly, as befitted the scene and the season; for who would hurry over the...
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Herbs for the Mediaeval Household for Cooking, Healing and Divers Uses
The Enchanted GardenHerbs for the Mediaeval Household for Cooking, Healing and Divers Uses by Margaret B. Freeman
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Beauty of the Grand Canyon from The Grand Canyon of Arizona By Atchison,...
Grand Canyon of the YellowstoneHither, to this point of the chasm whence I am writing, long ago came Thomas Moran, the painter, and painted for the people of the United States that great scene which...
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Enchantment of Gorse
Early summer - gorse in bloomA fresh wind blew from the sea; the path led at a varying level along the down broken every here and there with projecting crags, boulders fallen from a crag above, and...
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An Autumn Fancy
ApfelbaumAN AUTUMN FANCY by Nina BellO, For a brief sweet autumn afternoon, In girlhood's beatific realm of dreams,An hour from memory's cherished garden plucked,—Flowers that fade and die, alas, too...
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Apples our Fragrant Everyday Fruit
Zwei Kinder mit Brot und Äpfeln bei der PauseApples our Fragrant Everyday Fruit
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On Apples-Henry David Thoreau
The Apple PickerEarly apples begin to be ripe about the first of August; but I think that none of them are so good to eat as some to smell. One is worth more to scent your handkerchief with than any...
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Fragrance of the Wind by William Alfred Quayle
The Gust of WindAnd winds laded with odors—you can not escape their sweet comradeship. And winds blowing across a field where haycocks exhale fragrance, who can escape their witchery? Such winds know...
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Autumnal Odors by Charles C. Abbott
Autumn in North AmericaAUTUMNAL ODORSBy Charles C. Abbott, M.D. Author of "Travels in a Tree-Top,""Clear Skies and Cloudy,""The Birds About Us,"etc. THE two senses only of sight and hearing will not...
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Glory of Autumn
Autumn Landscape"Autumn tints" are an old theme for poet, painter and moralist, and yet, as we stand in the woodland or the glades of the forest each fall of the year, there seems to be a newness about...
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Autumnal Scents
Ilya Ostroukhov. The Golden AutumnThere is a wild, withered fragrance wandering in the wood. It is not the all-pervading incense of spring, but the sweetness of decay; a chastened odor; a something...
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Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Title Page of "A Curious Herbal"Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
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The Scented Garden by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Lady in a GardenThe Scented Garden by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
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Walk on An Indian Summer Day
Zolotaja osen (lit. "Indian summer") by Vasiliy Polenov.So it was we took a walk on an Indian Summer day. The day was perfect. A trace of frost was in the air, just enough to make it bracing and an...
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An Old Fashioned Sugar Camp by Paul Griswold Huston
The Maple Sugar CampAn Old Fashioned Sugar Camp by Paul Griswold Huston
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The Camera In the Maple Sugar Camp
Sugar Maple TappingThe Camera In the Maple Sugar Camp
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TREES IN AUTUMN By Alice M. Shepard
Chestnut Tree in AutumnTREES IN AUTUMN By Alice M. Shepard When Summer's sun with fervent heat Has ripened corn, and oats, and wheat; When yellow pumpkins dot the fields, And fragrance tells of apple...
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Scent of Autumn Rain
After Rain, Autumn Mood (Sun-Down)After the first autumn rains, how inimitable the beauty of days— the fall colors, not yet faded, washed out, in the winter deluge, but dripping, glistening, every...
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Mushroom Hunting in England
Mushroom PaintingsToad's Meat. “ PREJUDICE, sir—rank, obstinate prejudice; the old English conservative hatred of anything new.”And my friend, the Reverend Phil Morel, incumbent of Mistey Parva,...
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