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an Elm avenue of great beauty, the trees, growing 

 from either hedgebank, meeting overhead and 

 interlacing their tops. Our road winds for some 

 distance under this continuous and living arch of 

 verdure, whilst on either hand, over the bordering 

 hedgebanks, we have perspective glimpses of 

 pastoral and sylvan landscape on the left the 

 wooded banks of the Avon, on the right meadow 

 and cornfield backed by bordering trees between 

 which we can get glimpses away in the far dis- 

 tance of the embrowned surface of the open 

 forest. The trunks of the Elms of the avenue 

 through which we are going are garlanded by Ivy 

 and Moss whilst the rough surface of the bark is 

 covered by Lichen of varying colours, gold, green, 

 orange and olive. In the hedgebanks on either 

 hand are the great leaves of the Coltsfoot, with 

 Male Fern and Burdock and Bramble and Nettle 

 and masses of the now flowerless Germander 

 Speedwell, whilst from time to time the fiery 

 glow of a Poppy seems almost to illumine the 

 abounding greenery. As we approach the end of 

 the avenue we can see away to the right the 

 western edge of the forest, and a little way 



