Jessie Jefferies
02 July 2026
The July Fly
The following extract comes from 'The July Grass' first published on 24 July 1886 in the Pall Mall Gazette and later collected in Field and Hedgerow. The "July fly", described by Jefferies, is the pretty burnet moth [a day-flying moth] and the birdsfoot "lotus" is birdsfoot trefoil that he would have seen in the meadows.
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