both of form and colour every day. Those who know Lord Winter. 

 Tennyson's works know that he was not only a great poet, but 

 a keen and accurate observer of England's flora. They will 

 find recalled the coal-blackness of the Ash buds, and the 

 sanguine vivid spot of ccjour in the heart of the Horse- 

 chestnut bloom things which many a countryman has lived 

 and died without noticing. 



VICARY GIBBS. 



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