CHAPTER IX 



AUGUST 



Leycesteria — Early recollections — Bank of choice shrulis — Bank cf 

 Briar Boses — Hollyhocks — Lavender — Lilies — Bracken and 

 Heaths — The Fern-walk — Late-blooming rock-plants — 

 Autumn flowers — Tea Koses — Fruit of JRosa rugosa — Fungi — 

 Chantarelle. 



Leycesteria formosa is a soft- wooded shrub, whose beauty, 

 without being showy, is full of charm and refinement, 

 I remember delighting in it in the shrub-wilderness of 

 the old home, where I first learnt to know and love 

 many a good bush and tree long before I knew their 

 names. There were towering Rhododendrons (^allponti- 

 cum) and Ailanthus and Hickory and Magnolias, and 

 then Spiraea and Snowball tree and tall yellow Azalea, 

 and Buttercup bush and shrubby Andromedas, and in 

 some of the clumps tall Cypresses and the pretty cut- 

 leaved Beech, and in the edges of others some of the 

 good old garden Roses, double Cinnamon and B. lucida, 

 and Damask and Provence, Moss-rose and Sweetbriar, 

 besides tall -grown Lilacs and Syringa. It was all 

 rather overgrown, and perhaps all the prettier, and 

 some of the wide grassy ways were quite shady in 

 summer. And I look back across the years and think 



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