138 With the Nightingales at the Vicarage. 



running straight up, "like the mast of some great 

 ammiral ; " oaks of great antiquity ; chestnuts in the 

 early summer, with their creamy pyramids of blossom ; 

 a horn-beam or two rare in this quarter common 

 willows, waving high, cedars of Lebanon sighing to- 

 wards their East, and some splendid elms, mixed with 

 lilacs, and " laburnums, dropping wells of fire " in their 



season ; hop-elms, a cedar or two, and a few lime-trees, 

 with no end of lower shrubbery wood red-thorns, 

 black-thorns, white-thorns, &c. &c. 



At the lower point of the little park, that is, at the 

 end farthest from the house, the trees in the outside 

 circle so arrange themselves in relation to several trees 

 planted in the grass close to the boundary-walk, that 

 the branches actually interlace and form arches. This 



