JANUARY n 



upper half, above the wall, this tree had 

 never seen the sun since George Evelyn 

 planted the row of Phyllereas, in imitation 

 apparently of that at his cousin's place at 

 Wotton. 



Smooth bare poles alone remain of all the 

 others : yet such is their vitality, although 

 to -all appearance they have long been 

 dead, that from the roots have sprung 

 a thicket of young wood, so luxuriant 

 as almost to hide the barren decay of 

 the parent stems. Since Peach Corner 

 commended itself as a pleasant name for 

 the new * improvement,' after the place 

 was cleared fresh soil filled in and the 

 walk extended to justify the title three 

 double blossomed standard peach trees, 

 are placed there in the grass. In the 

 remnant of old wall, arched openings have 

 been worked with a lattice of thin wire 

 strained across, up which Mina lobata 

 climbed joyously last summer to the very 

 top, and then fell over, breaking in a 

 rich mantling of leaf, light and lovely as 

 folds of green lace might be. When mina 

 lobata starts to grow, about the middle or 



