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little plant was nursed and well it throve ; 

 being covered every Summer with sweet 

 flowers, and with bright purple berries for 

 Autumn decoration ; while its descendants, 

 from cuttings, abound in the parish still. 



Next to the Golden Honeysuckle the pride 

 of the Study Garden lay in its Yellow Persian 

 Briar- roses. These, which came originally 

 from the great plant in the corner of the 

 troco ground at Bramshill, grew very freely ; 

 and in June the walls of the house and garden 

 were ablaze with the vivid golden blossoms, 

 the rooms being always decorated for two or 

 three weeks with dishes of the yellow Roses, 

 mixed with darkest purple Pansies on a ground 

 of wild Fern. There was no need in those days 

 to buy a bunch of " French Fern " from the 

 nearest florist ; for Asplenium Adiantum nigrum 

 then grew plentifully up the lane beyond the 

 Rectory, though it has now nearly disappeared. 



Only a few plants were kept for bedding in 

 a little pit which my father and our faithful 

 man, George Chaplin whom he took as a lad 



