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recesses for the nests made by the ingenious plac- 

 ing of the bricks are alike in both cotes. 



A beautiful and fitting tenant of old formal gar- 

 dens was the peacock, " with his aungelis federys 

 bryghte." On large English estates peacocks were 

 universally kept. A fine peacock, with full-spread 



Beehives under the Trees. 



tail, makes many a gay flower bed pale before 

 his panoply of iridescence and color. The pea- 

 hen is a demurely pretty creature. Peacocks are 

 not altogether grateful to garden owners ; on the 

 old Narragansett farm whose garden is shown 

 on page 35, they were always kept, and it was 

 one of the prides and pleasures of formal hospi- 



