108 The Delights of Hedgerows. 



in their season, and reap the ripe results in the most 

 delicious and refreshing of fruits. Thoreau spoke of 

 the delicate wines stored up in the wild fruits by the 

 wayside, and certainly this plan would have the result 

 at once of giving the trim clipped hedgerow a new 

 beauty, and of bringing a taste of the sweet wilderness 

 near to the doors of the house without any, or at any 

 rate many, countervailing disadvantages. 



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