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beeches, laurels, and silver birches, are grouped in splendid 

 harmony. 



Rydal Mount, a picturesque, and beautifully-secluded 

 spot, most attractively furnished with laburnums, wild 

 cherries, sycamores, and mountain ash, which are not only 

 conspicuous by their robust growth but by the great pro- 

 lusion of blossom and fruit during the spring and summer 

 months. The rock-work, walls, and borders are richly 

 clad with royal and other native ferns ; also, sedums, 



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stonecrops, lichens, foxgloves, wild strawberries, geranium 

 Robcrtianum (or, red-stalked cranesbill), harebells, and 

 meconopsis (the Welsh poppy) the latter establishing and 

 reproducing itself in every conceivable crevice and 

 cranny where there is the least particle of soil to aid its 

 germination, giving forth myriads of golden yellow blos- 

 soms, thus producing a striking effecl: when naturalised in 

 this. way. Laurels, azaleas, and rhododendrons, stand out 

 in perfect splendour from the undulating stretch of lawns, 



