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loam of Bagshot with an endless supply of 

 rich leaf mould from the woods bordering 

 Chobham Ridges. While Londoners may 

 delight each year in the Annual Rhoclo- 

 dendron Show of Messrs. John Waterer & 

 Sons in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's 

 Park, a still greater feast of colour is spread 

 for those who live within reach of their famous 

 nurseries at Bagshot, the home of scores of the 

 exquisite varieties known all the world over. 

 As such is my happy fate, it seemed only right 

 one day to pay my devoirs to " Pink Pearl " in 

 its own home. The Red Seraph was badly in 

 want of exercise, too ; so we trotted gaily over 

 by the grand old coaching road, now infested 

 by hundreds of motor cars emitting hideous 

 hootings and villainous smells, which have 

 taken the place of the forty coaches that 

 travelled daily each way with their fine teams 

 and merry horns in the old days. But no 

 highwayman, not even Parson Darby or the 

 benevolent landlord of the "Jolly Farmer" 

 himself, could have looked more alarming than 

 the masked motorists who flew past us. The 



