May has now opened, the hedges have leafed out and the trees are beginning lazily to unfold their leaves.
The hedges are not by any means so trim and well kept as the hedges by the wayside in Down or Antrim.
The tall hedges of white thorn in their bridal white perfume the air.
I was amused by an instance of the English fondness for hedges which I saw here.
We set off, passing through fields guarded by stiff-leaved hedges of the ratoon-pine, over ways so bad that if the motion of the volante were not the easiest in the world, we should have taken an unpleasant jolting.
The hedges were all aglow with the brilliant scarlet berries of the cassena, and on some of the oaks we observed the mistletoe, laden with its pure white, pearl-like berries.
The garden at Huntersfield was square with box hedges and peaked up with yew, and there were stained marble statues of Diana and Flora and Ceres, and a little pool with lily pads.
All the mignonette, and the sweet peas, and the roses; the greathedges of Scotch roses, white and red, are her care.
Beyond the garden and the hedges she can see the broad fields beloved from childhood.
She directed her gaze toward the gate between the hedges beyond which the grey silent road was visible, gently serene in the pale rose light.
No scythe cuts them down, as it does by the hedges in the meadows; nor was a man sent round with a reaping hook to chop them off, as is often done round the arable fields.
The days go on and the hedges become green--the sun shines, and the blackbirds whistle in the trees.
Though the tinted leaves were fast falling, the hedges were still full of plants and vegetation that prevented seeing through them.
The path now trends somewhat away from the stream and skirts a ploughed field, where the hedges are cropped close and the elms stripped of the lesser boughs about the trunks, that the sparrows may not find shelter.
But when the acorns and the berries be ripe, the pheasants comes out along the hedges after 'em, and gets up at the haws and such like.
The hedges are now fast putting on the robe of green that gradually hides the wreck of last year's growth.
Passing gently along a hedge thickly timbered with oak and elms, a hawk may perhaps start forth: hawks sometimes linger by the hedges till late, but it is not often that you can shoot one at roost except in spring.
He did a good deal of the ferreting in the hedges outside the woods himself: if he took home three dozen from the mound and only paid for two dozen, that scarcely concerned the world at large.
The pheasant had been walking about in the corner where the hedges met, but now he went in; still, as he entered the hedge in a quiet way, he did not appear to be alarmed.
In the large water-meadows a small flock sometimes remained all day: it was possible to approach near enough by stalking behind the hedges to see the colour of the mallards; but they were always out of gunshot.
From the thick hedges on either side trailing brambles and briars stretched far out, and here and there was a fallen branch, broken off by the winds, whose leaves had turned brown and withered while all else was green.
The hedge being low he could see it coming; but guns are sometimes heaved in this way over hedgesthat have not been cropped for years.
Fieldfares and redwings rose out of the hedges and flew away in their peculiarly scattered manner--their flocks, though proceeding in the same direction, seeming all loose and disordered.
The female yellow-hammers, whose hues are not so brilliant as those of the male birds, seem as winter approaches to flock together, and roam the hedges and stubble fields in bevies.
The forest of bloom extends acre after acre, and only ceases where hedges divide, to commence again beyond the boundary.
It rose high above the hedges beyond a bend near at hand, and came on at great speed.
Among the most attractive features of the plain are its hedges and wild-flowers--especially its luxuriant white wild-roses, the most beautiful I have ever seen.
Roses, meadow-sweet, primroses and other wild-flowers made the hedges smell of England.
It was dark before we arrived at the end of our unusually long day's journey, and in the hedges of the suburbs glimmering glow-worms took the place of the wild-roses that night had rendered invisible.
The snow was falling heavily, and lay deep on the road and thick on the hedges and trees.
Illustration] Till at last the day begins In the east a-breaking, In the hedges and the whins Sleeping birds a-waking.
In the darkness shapes of things, Houses, trees, andhedges Clearer grow; and sparrow's wings Beat on window ledges.
All the snowdrop bulbs which are raised in Holland are grown under hedges or in orchards, where the roots of the trees impoverish the ground and take from it what the little bulbs dislike.
Also one understands the necessity of the high hedges or screens which separate the garden into squarish patches.
The whole estate, not large, is surrounded by a high stone wall, and inside of that a line of trees and hedges higher still.
Its clean roads and pretty hedges and beautiful trees, its quiet English villages, its rambles, interested us much.
The hedges consist of tiny silvery bushes, with rosy red pointed branches, and the lofty grasses with their woolly spear-heads shoot up so high, that a tall man walking amongst them would not overtop them.
But these things can only be studied in leisured intimacy from a slow-going boat passing in the spring-time, when the blackthorn frosts the hedges and starry-eyed primroses grow to monstrous size.
The roads were greasy, and the hedges were torn and worn with incipient winter, and when they dipped the town appeared, a reddish-brown mass in the blue landscape.
Hedges and fields swept past them in faintest outline, here and there a blurred mass, which they recognised as a farm building.
We outflanked the rich scene of fruit plantations belonging to the town, but picked blackberries, hips, and haws, from their hedgesalongside the runnels of water which supply those gardens.
The hedges were lined by the Suffolk and Tyrone Militia and part of the supplementary yeomen, with a small party posted in the churchyard and another at the bottom of the street which looked upon the bridge.
Besides the main walks, semicircular rows of trees were planted, and hedges contrived so as to form pleasing labyrinths for those who preferred privacy.
On the farther side there are gardens--gardens that have in their midst those quietest things in all the world and most windless, box-hedges and ponds.
Piccadilly, purveyors to Her Majesty the Queen; Hedges & Butler, 155.
They were found in the hedges about West Humble, and in the grounds of the Grove.
On our left in the sandhills the progress was slower and steadier, and the line finished up a good deal nearer the Turk than on the right; but here again the cactus hedgeslined with machine guns proved too much for us.
The march was once more in the evening, and was very comfortable, except for the last mile or two when we got in between the high hedges of prickly pear, and had to march through about a foot of dust in the most stifling atmosphere.
The village that adjoins me nestles among trees; the gardens all about the houses are masses of shrubbery and flowers; stone fences are utterly unknown; there are hedges everywhere.
There were broad hedges at each side of the road, and no ditch between.
For this purpose Enclosure Commissioners are appointed, and under their award the balks are ploughed up, the fields divided into blocks for the several owners, hedges planted, and the whole face of the country changed.
A modern English field shut in by hedges would not suit the vision in the least.
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