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red of the high kitchen garden wall on the 

 right ; and for some two hundred yards along 

 the straight edge of the wide herbaceous space 

 beneath it, where fruit trees were coming into 

 flower, lay a band two feet wide of solid colour 

 a thick close mass of two-year-old Polyan- 

 thus of every shade ; while here and there a 

 double pink Plum, or brilliant flowering Peach 

 was set off by the tender brown of large stan- 

 dards of Prunus Pissardii just coming into leaf, 

 or the pure white of a Cherry. On the left of 

 the long walk, and lovelier still, lay the Lily 

 ponds and the Wild garden beyond them. In 

 the sloping turf between the walk and the 

 ponds, the place of last Summer's tall Fuchsias, 

 Plumbagos and Erythrinas was now taken by 

 sunk pots of equally charming, if less vivid, 

 flowering Plums and Peaches and Cherries, 

 with the delicate white sprays of Spiraea Thun- 

 bergii and S. prunifolia, &c. The little island 

 on the large pond was crowned above the green 

 of budding shrubs with a pink Cherry in full 

 bloom against a tall white Plum. And on the 

 edge of some of the Lily ponds subtle touch 



