LETTER XII 



Winterlxnirne " An Escape " Minuilus Lily-of-the- Valley 

 Growing Wild High Clere Beacon Panoramic View Pas- 

 toral Scenery Ramsbury Manor House Superstition as to 

 Bees Bees Stinging The Rev. E. Hawkins and His Bee 

 Carriage Fred. Walker's Bees Bees in a Billiard Room. 



2Ot/i July, 1894. 



DEAR MARCO On a recent visit to my 

 friend Mr. Fisher, of Winterbourne, near 

 Newbury, I saw a very interesting example 

 of what botanists term "an escape." The 

 little brook " The Winterbourne " for about 

 two miles of its length, is at present thickly 

 planted along its edges with mimulus, or 

 monkey flower, which has at some time or 

 another found its way to the brookside by 

 seed from a cottage garden near the head of 

 the stream. When I first noticed the luxu- 



