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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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Asia and a few are natives of NorthAmerica. The common or English primrose(Prijnula vulgaris), by careful culture,produces a wonderful number of varia-tions. The wild forms produce onlyyellow single flowers while from thoseunder cultivation are developed nu-merous varieties, both single anddouble, which vary greatly in color-red, pink, white, purple, and manyshades of each. The cowslip primrose (^Primula veris)is also a native of England. The flow-ers are yellow and nodding, and theplants emit a strong odor of anise. The Himalaya Mountains are proba-bly more rich in beautiful and interest-ing species and varieties than anyother locality. Here is found the mostbeautiful of all the primroses, the deli-cate rose-colored form (Primula rosea.) This species of primrose shouldnot be confounded with the eveningprimrose, of which there are abouttwenty species, all American. Theyellow flowers of the latter appear inthe summer, opening at night, the thinand delicate petals withering the nextday.
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319 PRIMROSE.*/7 Life-size. THE EGRET^S YOUNG. ELIZA WOODWORTH. Beside a quiet stream the egrets build, And, friendly, crowd their nests of wattled sticksIn clustered trees, then patient keep unchilled Their sea-blue eggs, and hear the first fajnt pricksAgainst the shells; and soon each wistful brood Beneath the mothers breast will doze or wake;And soon each parent pair will wing with food From waded shallows brown, and marsh and brake.Between the flights they rest and tranquil look Far down the glade from boughs or dusky nests,And see the deer that wend beside the brook, And partridge coveys, with their freckled breasts.Oh, lives like sunny hours! Oh, peaceful glade. Where glow the early flowers! What hunters stealAlong the stream, with rifles softly laid At hand, while slips the skiff on noiseless keel? The shots half-blind the air with curling haze,And from his lookout perch the watcher falls; The nested mother lifts her head to gaze. And wounded, flutters down with hollow c^lls. A

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