Thicket of varied grasses and blossoming plants. A myriad stars of stitchwort and purple Spires of orchis join hands, as it were, over the elm-branches swathed deep in the lush growths of spring. Shadowing the spangled blossoms rise the lofty columnar boles of the elm-trees, with the black nest of a crow swinging on the topmost boughs — the nest already.