OCTOBER.
PLANT LIFE.
Plants usually in flower.—Shepherd’s purse, white clover, daisy, dandelion, snapdragon, red deadnettle, white deadnettle, slender foxtail, and others.
Most forest-trees shed their leaves.
Fruits of apple, pear, plum, and other plants are ripe.
Corn.—Wheat-sowing continued.
ANIMAL LIFE.
Birds.—Young song-birds may be heard learning to sing. Fieldfares and redwings arrive. Swallows and house-martins depart. Drakes reassume their distinctive plumage.
Frogs hibernate ([p. 334]).
Insects.—October is the best month for pupa hunting.