Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . he Fern-walk — Late-blooming rock-plants —Autumn flowers—Tea Koses—Fruit of JRosa rugosa—Fungi—Chantarelle. Leycesteria formosa is a soft-wooded shrub, whose beauty,without being showy, is full of charm and refinement,I remember delighting in it in the shrub-wilderness ofthe old home, where I first learnt to know and lovemany a good bush and tree long before I knew theirnames. There were towering Rhododendrons (^allponti-cum) and Ailanthus and Hickory and Magnolias, andthen Spiraea and Snowball tree and tall ye
Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . he Fern-walk — Late-blooming rock-plants —Autumn flowers—Tea Koses—Fruit of JRosa rugosa—Fungi—Chantarelle. Leycesteria formosa is a soft-wooded shrub, whose beauty,without being showy, is full of charm and refinement,I remember delighting in it in the shrub-wilderness ofthe old home, where I first learnt to know and lovemany a good bush and tree long before I knew theirnames. There were towering Rhododendrons (^allponti-cum) and Ailanthus and Hickory and Magnolias, andthen Spiraea and Snowball tree and tall yellow Azalea,and Buttercup bush and shrubby Andromedas, and insome of the clumps tall Cypresses and the pretty cut-leaved Beech, and in the edges of others some of thegood old garden Roses, double Cinnamon and B. lucida,and Damask and Provence, Moss-rose and Sweetbriar,besides tall-grown Lilacs and Syringa. It was allrather overgrown, and perhaps all the prettier, andsome of the wide grassy ways were quite shady insummer. And I look back across the years and think 100.
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