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High Coxlease, Lyndhurst. 



satisfying if rightly disposed. We leave High Coxlease with a glance at the 

 garden flowers growing out of a sea of fern, the latter always beautiful, whether 

 in its tender green of spring, its duller hue at midsummer, or its rich and rusty brown 

 in winter, but most of all when the coming of the frost touches the green to 

 brilliant yellow and Nature carpets the forest with an undergrowth of gold. 



The especial charm of making a flower garden in a forest clearing is that the 

 wilful tribes of Nature can be absorbed into the new population, where they will still 

 flaunt their wild and brilliant graces. In such gardens the outlying parts are likely 

 never to be more brilliant than in autumn, when the gold of the furze is glittering 

 everywhere among the darker hues of heather and the fading greens of bracken. 

 Furze is a great ally to the garden colourist, for the large and early varieties are followed 

 by others that are small and late. As the old and pleasant saying runs, gorse is out 

 of bloom only when kissing 's out of fashion. 



FIG. l8. LILIES AND GABLES AT HIGH COXLEASE. 



