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garden. Nothing can be more neat and 

 useful than these espaliers, the goose- 

 berries being easily gathered without much 

 prickling by thorns, while nets fall comfort- 

 ably over, protecting them from the birds. 

 It was a delightful garden ! A long green 

 walk lay between rows of hollyhocks, pink, 

 black, white, and pale primrose. These 

 lovely hollyhocks had the free, aspiring 

 form, that is now so rarely seen when the 

 blossoms seem to clump irregularly up the 

 slender stem. Roses and most of the 

 summer flowers had faded from the borders 

 at the time of my visit. White everlast- 

 ing pea and red, strongly scented, fraxi- 

 nella were among the few that still bloomed 

 in beauty. A favourite plant of red 

 fraxinella was lost from our garden a year 

 or two ago, and I had not seen one since. 

 The scent of the flower is said to be due to 

 the emission of a vapour that can be set on 

 fire with a lighted match. That, must one 

 day be tried. One has but to pass a glove 

 lightly across the flower, however, and it is 

 perfumed all over. In another part of that 

 old garden grew white strawberries of a 



