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Of all seasons, give me the Autumn, the leaf. In the early hours, I, an old lover in love with the woods, go forth to listen to their undersong and pause, half expectant, waiting to hear unimagined...
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AMONG MY TREESHail, thou hundred-handed pine,Swaying with a grace divine,Light and heat and air receiving,Beauty and soft fragrance giving.Teach us music, songful birds,With your seconds and your...
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And the fragrances of the forest,—that general woodsy scent which fills all their aisles, the rich bouquet of the fox grapes, the peculiar evanescence of the witch hazel, the balsamic odours of pine...
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Beautiful trees are these spruces and firs, either in the forest . or when brought by the planter to his home grounds. The leaves are much shorter than those of most pines, and clothe the twigs...
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Of all, I think the most curious is the Spice Bazaar, contained in a separate and more substantial building, the arched roof of. which is painted black and white, in arabesques notj easily seen within...
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The varying thread of our story now takes us to the farfamed perfume bazaar of Constantinople. Stay! what a cloud of perfume and sweet scents burthens the air! Here are gathered all the sweets of the...
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THE BAZAAR.It is about noon one day as I leave my quarters in Khiva, to take a view of the bazaar. The streets are hot and dusty; the sun is shining fiercely; the grey mud-walls receive and again throw...
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Of all, I think the most curious is the Spice Bazaar, contained in a separate and more substantial building, the arched roof of. which is painted black and white, in arabesques notj easily seen within...
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ATTAR OF ROSESThe gardens of Damascus are full of roses; the damask rose takes its name from the city, while among the strange and ancient things still manufactured in the town is attar of roses. As my...
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All around us on this common way are to be found marvels of delicate work that come from the soul of Beauty without thought of us, but that richly repay us as we give to them our thought—as we stand...
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PREVISIONBy Dorothy Stott ShawSpring comes always to the wildest spender,Year in, year out, at the breaking of the snows; Spring comes always, blustery and tender,—But spring comes sharpest when...
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THE leaves are falling in greater profusion, but the fall has reached its climax, for the cold wind and mist and rain has whispered to them of Winter. Every lane that we found so cool in Summer with...
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The air of the church is sweet with incense swung by invisible censer-bearers— wild grape, field strawberry, sweet fern, roses—the subtle perfume of everything green, blossoming and earthy, stirred by...
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HONEY.Apes complent melle favos.—Tibullus.The delicious, fragrant, and nutritive matter called Honey, is extracted by bees from the sugar existing in the nectaries of flowers, which sugar is converted...
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Flowers which are favourites with bees in some situations, are in others passed over by them with apparent indifference. This shows that climate, soil, and season, have more influence in adapting...
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THE JOY OF FRAGRANCE-1by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb"Chests of fragrant medicinal balmTo work cool ointments for the grievèd flesh."CHARLES WELLS.AS the colour-blind slowly learn to distinguish shades of...
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THE JOY OF FRAGRANCE-2by Mary Gladys Meredith WebbAs in some uncanny flowers and distorted trees there seems to be an evil influence, so in many cloying scents there is sorcery. Down where the pale...
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THE JOY OF FRAGRANCE-3by Mary Gladys Meredith WebbThe origin of flower scents is full of mystery. Sometimes they seem to run through the minute veins like an ichor, as in wallflowers, with their...
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THE JOY OF FRAGRANCE-4by Mary Gladys Meredith WebbFlowers like the oxlip, with transparently thin petals, only faintly washed with colour, yet have a distinct and pervasive scent. Daisies are redolent...
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THE JOY OF FRAGRANCE-5by Mary Gladys Meredith WebbThe violet has long had such poor, negative virtues as modesty and self-effacement ascribed to her, because she stays in her hidden nook, apparently a...
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