Hedgerow Life 
But are there not the hedgerows, 
which give England its chief charm ? 
In my opinion a common hedgerow 
is more beautiful and more full of interest 
than the best-kept garden. In fact, very 
often the more pretentious a garden is, 
the uglier it is. But the hedgerow is 
full of life and full of surprises for those 
who take the trouble to look for them, 
and the more you search the more there 
is to reward you for doing so, while 
the changing seasons provide a constant 
variety. 
If you were to start to-morrow to 
collect, or only to count and keep a list 
of, all the different plants and flowers 
which you could find in the hedges 
and growing on the banks and sides 
of the ditches wherever you happen to 
live, you would have work enough to 
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