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Broom, Bramble and Briar Rose, that forms 

 my delightful barrier from the passer-by on 

 the high-road. Against the many tones of 

 the dark green background, one great cherry- 

 coloured Rose has lifted its head on a long 

 shoot high above the drooping orange and 

 scarlet plumes of a low Sumach, which ap- 

 peared, I know not whence or how, among the 

 Rhododendrons ; and the group is completed 

 by the brilliant crimson of a sturdy Azalea, the 

 colour of its foliage repeated in a haze of Wild- 

 Rose hips up among the Broom and Gorse. 

 Nearer by in the same border, above the cold 

 glaucous-grey foliage of a line of the invaluable 

 Mrs. Sinkins pink, a pure white Aimee Vibert 

 Rose stretches far out of the dark hedge above 

 white Japanese Anemones and a pink Marie 

 Masse Chrysanthemum ; while up aloft, scarlet 

 trails of Virginia Creeper hang from the tall 

 young Lime tree into which they have 

 climbed." 



What would our English Autumns be with- 

 out those glorious red wreaths of Virginia 

 Creeper ; or the close-tiled sheets of its more 



