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Rectory garden from the churchyard. And 

 here again my father endeavoured to make 

 the best of that which he found under his 

 hand. The plain red brick of the church 

 once a cell of St. Peter's, Westminster, and 

 rebuilt in its present form in the days of 

 " Good Queen Anne " was gradually clothed 

 with Roses, Ivy, Cotoneaster, Pyracantha, 

 Honeysuckle, &c. And in order that his 

 parishioners should look on beautiful objects 

 as they assembled in the churchyard for their 

 Sunday gossip before service, the old part of 

 the churchyard was planted with choice trees 

 and flowering shrubs Juniper, Cypress, Irish 

 Yew, Berberis, Rhododendron, Acer Negundo, 

 and Sweet-briar ; and the grass was dotted with 

 Crocuses where it was not already carpeted 

 with white Violets. These shrubs and trees 

 have now grown so large that they have to 

 be carefully clipped to keep them within 

 bounds. And the largest of all is a fine 

 young Wellingtonia, a seedling from a cone 

 my father picked up in the Mariposa Grove 

 in May 1874. After his death, in 1875, the 



