Excerpt from A Bush Calendar A Bus/c Calendar was commenced wit/i t/ze idea of skaring wit/z otker bus/z lovers t/ie pleasures w/zick I myself kave found in my walks, and it appeared originally on Me Page for Women of tile Sydney Morning Herald. As t/ze seasons advanced letters of en couragement were received from many readers w/zo knew t/ieir Busk and from some w/zo admittedly Izad not found t/ze key w/iic/i unlocks tke book of Nature and it is at Me reguestof many of t/zese unknown friends t/zat t/ie articles are reprinted. Alt/zoug/z t/ze book is not intended to be a complete scientific record, t/ze lists of flowers and birds most in prominence eac/z mom/i liave been so greatly extended tkat t/zey may claim to be fairly representative of tbe coastal districts around Sydney. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.