Colour in the flower garden . a* asoa; aq CO. 70 7** 30 40 THE BANK OF EARLY BULBS. 70 7a. CHAPTER II THE WOOD Ten acres is but a small area for a bit of woodland,yet it can be made apparently much larger by well-considered treatment. As the years pass and thedifferent portions answer to careful guidance, I ammysefl surprised to see the number and wonderfulvariety of the pictures of sylvan beauty that it displaysthroughout the year. I did not specially aim atvariety, but, guided by the natural conditions of eachregion, tried to think out how best they might befostered and perhaps a little bett
Colour in the flower garden . a* asoa; aq CO. 70 7** 30 40 THE BANK OF EARLY BULBS. 70 7a. CHAPTER II THE WOOD Ten acres is but a small area for a bit of woodland,yet it can be made apparently much larger by well-considered treatment. As the years pass and thedifferent portions answer to careful guidance, I ammysefl surprised to see the number and wonderfulvariety of the pictures of sylvan beauty that it displaysthroughout the year. I did not specially aim atvariety, but, guided by the natural conditions of eachregion, tried to think out how best they might befostered and perhaps a little bettered. The only way in which variety of aspect was de-liberately chosen was in the way of thinning out thenatural growths. It was a wood of seedling trees thathad come up naturally after an old wood of ScotchFir had been cut down, and it seemed well to clearaway all but one, or in some cases two kinds of trees inthe several regions. Even in this the intention was tosecure simplicity rather than variety, so that in movingabout the ground there
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