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by the courtesy of Mr. James Parker, and to our especial 

 pleasure, again do duty, after half a century. Two illustrations 

 from " Riviera Notes," and two others from " Summer Days on 

 the Thames," have been lent by Mr. Quaritch and by Messrs. 

 Seeley, Service & Co., respectively. To both I return thanks. 

 Last but not least, I must thank my numerous friends in 

 other Colleges who have been so kind as to look through 

 the paragraphs on their own gardens, and thus greatly to 

 diminish the number of inaccuracies in my compilation. To 

 Professor Somerville the reader is indebted for one of the first, 

 if not actually the first, published accounts of the trees in the 

 University Park. 



R. T..G. 



February 1912. 



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