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green, and, though not so striking in appearance, 

 is really a very pretty object when loaded with its 

 wealth of rich pink clusters, which it retains a long 

 time. The chestnuts of both species are eagerly 

 sought after in the autumn by the deer, and when the 

 latter have picked up all the fallen ones, they know 

 how to shake the lower branches of the trees for a 

 fresh supply. The leaf scars, peculiar to the genus, 

 which by a curious coincidence bear a tolerable re- 

 semblance to the hoofs of a horse, are found in both 

 species, but they are less characteristic on the pink 

 flowering form than on the other. 



The Wild Cherry (Prunus Cerasus], which in early 

 spring rears its compact snowy head in the Old Copse 

 opposite the kennels, is not uncommon among the 

 underwood in some of the covers and hedgerows, on 

 the chalk, the marl, and the clay. It is found in 

 Star Copse, the Hodson field row, on each side of 

 Bohemia Hollow, and in the wheatrivers hangers, 

 and rows. The Wild Apple or Crab tree (Pyrus 

 Mains) is not unworthily represented in the park 

 near the Little Green Lodge, in the Warren by the 

 side of the Hollow on the chalk, and on West Heath, 

 in Blackrye Copse and near Chase's Copse on the 

 sand. The White Beam tree (Pyrus aria) is con- 

 spicuous in the park, Lady Holt, the Warren, and 

 the Round Copse on West Harting Down. 



Of the Alder (Alnus glutinosd) we have several 

 fair examples, on the Marl, in the Cabbage Garden, 

 and the little plantation between the highway and 

 the private road to the South Gardens, on the sands 

 near the hay barn at Downparks, at the tail of 

 the Blackrye pond, and on the clay in the East 

 Harting meadows. As an underwood we find it in 

 the Alder Moor near Ryefields and in Chase's Copse. 



We are not sufficiently acquainted with the Willow 

 tribe to venture on an enumeration of all the species 

 or varieties that are found here, but we may claim the 



