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 





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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 



