15H IN A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN 



from the sight of the return to life of all the heautica 

 of nature, with the promUe that all thing* will again 

 go forward in their normal course. Then only, ami 

 for a hort time only, while the wood* ami he<lgerowa 

 arc covered with the tender green* which tell that the 

 young leaves are hunting through their lud and are 

 covering the tree-* with a Ixviuty which ;u yet can 

 Bcarcely In? railed full foliage, each tret? stand* out 

 distinctly marked tv it* own peculiar shade of green, 

 HO that it i* |M*MMe fnr a practised eve to distinguish 

 iH'tween elms, (wik*, And l*eechc,, or tatwet'ti larv-hc* 

 and Scotch fir* In .June they will all 1* of an almo*t 

 tinifinu gnMi, dark, and even monoUtnotu, and w> they 

 will remain till in autumn each tree will again a*Miiuc 

 it.H own jieculiar Krillunt hue, * that each can !* 

 readily ditifigiu**hel from n fellnw. 



I'.ut in the flowerganlen there in at that time no 

 uch varietv. There are tlowep* to \tc found, and of 

 much lieautv, lut thev are not in abundance, ami it i 

 then that the gardener timN the gre.it advantage i.f a 

 go4nl collection of shrill". I wi^h, th r-f-re, t. lecmn 

 mend the growth of shrill* to a f.ir l.irger extent than 

 i-< usuallv seen, ami I will give a short H-l "f su< h a* 

 an* UM'ful in spring, ami a few ru--.nn vhv I "trough* 

 recommeml them. Hut it H w..rth while to Htp a 

 little, and see what shrub* are as we h:\e them now. 



