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of August, two friends waxed so enthusiastic, 

 that they settled then and there to give each 

 other a tree of it as the most charming offering 

 that friendship could devise. What in the 

 Autumn world can be more attractive than a 

 well-fruited tree of the dear old Red Quar- 

 renden, such as one that grew in the Rectory 

 garden ? and how we loved it when we ran out 

 between lessons and begged one of its apples 

 from George Chaplin to eat with our bit of 

 cake. Crabs, too, are as ornamental to the 

 Autumn as they are decorative for the Spring 

 garden ; especially such kinds as John Downie, 

 with rich red fruit, Fairy Apple, red and yellow, 

 Dartmouth^ crimson with a purple bloom over 

 the fruit, the scarlet Paul's Imperial, and the 

 Siberian Scarlet and Siberian Tellow. 



Then, again, few Autumn bushes are more 

 ornamental than a Medlar. I got one a few 

 years ago simply for the sake of its foliage, 

 and it has proved a thing of beauty every 

 Autumn ; while its effect this year was inten- 

 sified by a plant of Rosa Alpina a sucker 

 from the stock of some Tea Rose it has killed 



