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tree is not known, but tlie following pretty lines give a 

 pleasing guess on the subject : — 



" Wayfaring tree ! what ancient claim 

 Hast thou to that right pleasant name ? 

 Was it that some faint pilgrim came 

 Unhopedly to thee, 



" In the brown desert's weary way, 

 'Mid toil and thirst's consuming away, 

 And there, as 'neath thy shade he lay, 

 Bless'd the Avayfaring tree ? 



" Or is it that thou lov'st to shew 

 Thy coronals of fragrant snow, 

 Like life's spontaneous joj^s that flow- 

 In paths by thousands beat ? 



"■ Whate'er it be, I love it well ; 

 A name, methinks, that surely fell 

 From poet, in some evening dell 



"Wandering with fancies sweet." 



Were I attempting to write a book of gardening, it 

 would be easy to give lists of flowering shrubs, many per- 

 haps more beautifid than the old-fashioned favourites I 

 have named ; but all I am desirous of doing by these 

 pages is to call the attention to the easily-procured, every- 

 day pleasures of one's own garden. Those who can afford 

 it, and who have gardeners to cultivate their grounds, 

 ought to embellish them with all that is rich and rare ; but 

 let no one fancy that a small garden and shrubbery may 

 not be made " beautiful exceedingly," and a source of de- 

 light, unless it is filled with new varieties, generally ex- 

 pensive to procure, and difficult to cultivate. I may have 



