LETTER XXX 



Frost Weeds Drawing of Farringdon Street by G. P. Boyce 

 Grass Over the Smoking-Room at the Atheruieum Club 

 Twitch Grass Running Grass Gull and Carrion Crow Berry 

 of Lily-of-the-Valley. 



261/1 November, 1895. 



DEAR MARCO The wind has nipped every- 

 thing in my garden, so that it is absolutely 

 flowerless now. The previous cold snap, on 

 the 26th and 2/th of last month, had, however, 

 already finished off most things ; my favourite 

 China roses suffered especially, in spite of the 

 mild weather that followed. I have not picked 

 a bud from them since ; often in other years 

 I have gathered lovely bunches in December. 

 My wild chrysanthemums in the glasshouse 

 come in very usefully this year, they are 



