Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

This Then is Upland Pastures Being some out-door essays dealing with the beautiful things that the spring and summer bring

Knapp, Adeline, 1860-1909· 3 chapters· 10,668 words

When the warm rains succeed winter’s driving downpours, and the young grass begins to mantle the meadows ❦ with tender green, is the time, of all the year, to be out of doors ❧ All the woodsy places are cool and dripping and dim and delicious. A month later they will be not le...

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1. Part 1

When the warm rains succeed winter’s driving downpours, and the young grass begins to mantle the meadows ❦ with tender green, is the time, of all the year, to be out of doors ❧...

2. Part 2

But this was not good for the plant. Those flowers that in some way became fertilized by pollen from other plants of the same variety, by cross-fertilization, in fact, were heal...

3. Part 3

And this branched stem which we see is not fertile. ’Tis enough for it to support its waving green feather. The fertile stems are not branched. They appear above the earth, pale...