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which hundreds of Golden Crown Tulips lifted 

 their brilliant heads proudly to the sun. The 

 cool beauty of the Water and Wild gardens 

 came as it was intended to come with an 

 exquisite note of repose after this amazing 

 mass of colour. The copse at the end of the 

 Lily ponds had been cut, after the fashion of 

 copses, this year ; and for a moment I feared 

 the sense of mystery, it gave might have 

 suffered, until I realised that it only revealed 

 a fresh delight. For the whole steep slope 

 was one thick sheet of Bluebells a wondrous 

 carpet of intense blue ; and against this blue, 

 where in Summer the pink Hydrangeas make a 

 fairy glade, pots of dwarf Apple trees in full 

 bloom were sunk in the turf. The big Pink 

 Cherry above them was nearly over ; but 

 bushes great and small of the late-flowering 

 C. Avium shimmered like snowdrifts among 

 the tender green of tree and shrub near by. 

 And along the grass bank beside the Lily 

 Ponds, more delightful Cherries, the double 

 pink James Veitch, the single pink Watereri^ 

 with Spiraeas of many sorts, and Pyrus Ma/us 



