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rows of flowering bulbs, beautiful as they are ; but 

 in the flowering shrubs and trees. The old gar- 

 den had few shrubs, but it had unsurpassed beauty 

 in its rows of fruit trees which in their blossoming 

 give the spring garden, as here shown, that lovely 



A Thought of Winter's Snows. 



whiteness which seems a blending of the seasons 

 a thought of winter's snows. The perfection 

 of Apple blossoms I have told in another chapter. 

 Earlier to appear was the pure white, rather chilly, 

 blooms of the Plum tree, to the Japanese " the 

 eldest brother of an hundred flowers." They are 



