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this style of gardening at her late residence on the 

 Harrow-road. One favourite flower with her was 

 the Viola Amcena, the Pansy*, or Common Purple 

 Heart's-ease, and this she set with unsparing pro- 

 fusion all around her garden. Her great and con- 

 stant call for this flower every spring, to keep the 

 purple bordering complete and perfect, induced the 

 gardeners in the neighbourhood to give the name of 

 Miss Heart's-ease to her managing handmaid, who 

 used to chaffer for it in the true spirit of hard and 

 thrifty dealing. Her garden was remarkable in an- 

 other respect, and might with great propriety be 

 styled a garden of evergreens, which, together with 

 a few deciduous shrubs, were of the most sombre, 

 sable, and tragical cast such as Box- trees, Fir, 

 Privet, Phillyrea, Arbor Vitse, Holly, Cypress, the 

 Red Cedar, Laurel, Irish Ivy, Bay-tree, Arbutus 

 Daphne, or Spurge Laurel, Cneorum Tricoccum, or 

 the c Widow- Wail,' the branches and flowers of 



* Pansy, Panacea, derived from the Greek, signifying Heal-all. 



