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sun, with here a fine Copper Beech, there a 

 gigantic Deodar rising out of the mass of 

 flowers, and all set off by the rich green trees 

 of the Park. 



But magnificent as the general effect is, the 

 individual plants must be seen close to appre- 

 ciate their full beauty. Many of them are 

 forty and fifty years old, great trees planted 

 in the days of the father and grandfather of 

 the present generation, and left to form huge 

 walls of green leaves and brilliant blossoms 

 over twenty feet high. Perhaps one of the 

 most remarkable effects was produced by 

 immense masses of the clear, warm rose with 

 dark crimson spots of Lady Eleanor Cathcart^ 

 by no means a new variety, but one of the 

 finest. I can only describe it Oh bathos ! 

 as a mountain of Cherry water-ice. Then 

 next would come a mass of the pure white 

 with purple-black blotch of Sappho, the fiery 

 crimson of Frederick Waterer^ or rich crimson 

 of "John Walter. 



On that particular visit I made a list of the 

 kinds that struck me most* for the benefit of 



