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the -shade of a Beech tree. But there are not many 

 Beeches on the Riviera ; at least I have seen one only 

 in Nice, and that stands in the grounds of the Villa 

 Liserb, Cimiez, close to the house. Near Caussols 

 above St. Vallier there is a beech wood which contains 

 only stunted and scattered trees. The best have been 

 cut down for firewood. 



The hatred of the Spaniard for trees is proverbial : 

 the result is that on the denuded table land of Castile 

 the wind is, they say, so keen that it will kill a man 

 without blowing out a candle. The Liguriari does 

 not exactly hate trees ; but he is quite indifferent to 

 them, and rather glad of a pretext for cutting them 

 down. My landlord at a former house was threatening 

 a tree which stood opposite to his window. It was a 

 Nicotiana (N. glauca, Fig. 97), allied to the tobacco, 

 with yellow tubular corolla and glaucous entire leaves. 



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Fig. 97. NICOTIAXA GLAUCA. 



