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rested on a bench and made notes of the shrubs marked 

 for change of position ; and at different corners of the 

 garden considered improvements and alterations which 

 he had in view. The route chosen for the afternoon 

 drive was most often towards some plateau implement 

 ground, when he was able to contemplate several of 

 the sites that had yielded the weapons or tools of 

 primitive man. These easy open drives in the pictur- 

 esque country always refreshed him, and in getting 

 into the carriage a frequent remark with a smile was, 

 "I have become quite resigned to these lazy ways." 

 The evening, however, was the time to which he looked 

 forward, when he liked his wife to read aloud, never 

 tired of Scotch stories, and appreciating their dry 

 humour and caustic sayings : it was difficult to main- 

 tain a supply sufficient for the demand. Seeing a 

 facsimile of the first 1678 edition of the 'Pilgrim's 

 Progress' advertised, he expressed a wish for a copy, 

 which was placed on the drawing-room table by his 

 chair, and at odd moments the marvellous allegory was 

 usually in his hands. He had been ever a steady reader 

 of ' Nature,' and in one of his last evenings downstairs, 

 while its pages were open before him, his eyes lighting 

 up, he observed, " I cannot tell you how much I enjoy 

 ' Nature,' it is such a pleasure to me to see what other 

 workers are doing in other subjects." While debarred 

 from his own special books, one which interested him 

 was ' In a Gloucestershire Garden/ 1 and a list lies before 

 us of the plants and flowers which were new to him, 

 and had therefore not found a place in his own garden. 

 This list had been jotted down in pencil, and was after- 

 wards traced over in ink in a tremulous hand. 



In answer to an inquiry made by Mr A. H. Tabrum, 



1 By Canon Ellacombe. 



