The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 358
uate the species, but as many of them are also con-spicuous from their colours and markings, they soon attractthe eye of the young, and it is therefore little to be wonderedat that they are very popular with beginners. Some of the species are abundant everywhere. Indeed, tho;large and small Garden… … ^^Si-^ very places where we least desire their presence. They may beregarded as semi-domesticated animals, for wherever man culti-vates cabbages and turnips, there will these scourges of thekitchen garden dispute with him the possession of his property.Birds will not take kindly tothem as an…
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