SPRAY. 



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purplisli bark combine to invest it in a high 

 degree with the character of picturesqueness. 



Beautiful unquestionably in its mid- Winter guise 

 is the spray of the Yew, with the reddish-brown 



Tew. 



tinge of the shoots and the dark-greeai glossy 

 leaves. But of this tree and of its characteristics 

 we have spoken amply elsewhere, as we also have 

 of the Scotch Pine. So let us merely be cantent 



