And they stood in a beech-wood that had just put on its first green, where the woodroof* at their feet sent forth its fragrance, and the pale-red anemony looked so pretty among the verdure.
Yet much of the land—moist black soil and extraordinary verdure—was all but empty.
这里的土壤是潮湿的黑土,植被格外翠绿,然而大部分土地上却空空如也。
The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.