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herb suj^porting ' garigue ' of the South European hills, survive 

 however, and make a wild garden that looks Anglican enough 

 to the casual peripatetic. It can do no dis-service to their 

 li\'es to mention some by name. There are two — perhaps 

 three— ' blackberries " : Rubus spec/abilis o.f Pursh — a Prussian 

 botanist who travelled much in North America --somewhat 

 Hke a glorified logan-berry, with shining leaves in three lobes, 

 curvy rose-purple petals, and amber-hued to salmon red fruits ; 

 7^. odorati'.s L., fan leaved, broad rosy tinted contiguous petals, 

 and a musk scented fruit, with a very similar white petalled 

 growth which may be an alban variety and not the true R. 

 niUkanit^, of Mocino since that is par^ifiorous, which the 

 blossoms of this are clearly not, and I have not seen it growing 

 wild mysrlf- it is the Salmon-berry of rorky woodland west 

 from Ontario. 



Within the precincts here Iso flourish the ' odorafissimus ' ' 

 Hawthorn, the rare— in North English nurseries — JEscuhi'i 

 Vavia, the Red tassel-bloom Buckeye, looking like a neat 

 horse-chestnut as to leaf but with muich smaller catkined 

 blossoms : not to be confused with the now grown-common 

 Rose-flowered Chestnut of our shrubberies. In the tangled 

 maquis hereabout, clamorous for a share of Light — ever the 

 would-be perfect tree's great and constant cry, ages older than 

 Goethe — Amelanchier canadensis, the Shad or Juneberry, 

 uphsoots its slender shafts, spray crowned in late May with a 

 bridal veil of blossom, lovelier even than the wild Jean ' or 

 Cherry, bearing edible but hardly esculent haws, in late summer, 

 calling up to the tongue that first austere gout of a scarlet 

 rowan or a ' grec ' Siberian crab-apple. Grec, spell it how one 

 may, is ' good Yorkshire.' Look lower and one may also see 

 the Box-leaved Huckleberry; and the Rhododendron pitncfafum 

 of the Alleghanies, rose-flowered and dotted with translucent 

 gland a])ertures sub-foliarly ; the cut-leaved Alder, a variant 

 (hov.' originating I know not) of that brook-bank pyramidic 

 not canopied hunch-back tree which in our vale lands of York 

 has all the art value as it has the reverse silhouette of an Oak ; 

 and near this a few examples of the writhen, grey iron-arm'd 

 Hornbeam, about a century back much planted around Leeds, 

 but which nurserymen have discarded tor quicklier growing 

 trees, so that the surviving scarecrows one may see are long 

 past. their best ; as a lad I knew five in the stripes of shelter- 

 wood bordering Stonegate and Otley roads, and all have now^ 

 decrepited, like child-workers old before their time. Two, 

 sheltered are reliquarial here, and another and finer still bur- 

 geons characteristically below the east margin qf the Upper 

 ' lake ' at Roundhay. 



By the stream just above and below the culvert bridge, 

 two other ' foreigners ' claim notice — especially when in fruit. 



