The book The Naturalist On the Thames was written by author Cornish, Charles John, 1858-1906 Here you can read free online of The Naturalist On the Thames book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Naturalist On the Thames a good or bad book?
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In spring, thoseabove Oxford look as though covered with snow, and in early October theyare loaded with hips and haws, just turned red, with blackberries, elderberries (though the starlings have eaten most of these), with crabapples, with hazel nuts, scarlet wild guelder-rose berries, dog-woodberries, and sloes. Except the fields themselves, our hedges are almostthe oldest feature with which Englishmen adorned rural England. They havegone on making them until the last parish "enclosures, " some... of which weremade as late as thirty years ago, and when made they have always beenregarded as property of a valuable kind. When Christ's Hospital wasfounded in Ipswich in Tudor days, partly as a reformatory for badcharacters, "hedge-breakers" were more particularly specified as eligiblefor temporary domicile and discipline. "Hedges even pleached" were alwaysa symbol of prosperity, care, and order. "Her fruit trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined, " a token that something was amiss in our countryeconomy.
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