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left is covered with the fresh, strong greenery of 

 GauUheria Shallon. About twenty years ago a few 

 small pieces were planted. Now it is a mass of close 

 green growth two to three feet high and thirty paces 

 long, and extending for several yards into the wood 

 to right and left. In a light, peaty soil such as this, 

 it is the best of undershrubs. It is in full leaf-beauty 

 in the dead of winter, while in early summer it bears 

 clusters of good flowers of the Arbutus type. These 

 are followed by handsome dark berries nearly as 

 large as black currants, covered with a blue-grey 

 bloom. 



Now the path crosses another of the broad turfy 

 ways, but here the turf is all of Heath ; a fourteen-foot- 

 wide road of grey-rosy bloom in August ; and now 

 we are in the topmost region of Scotch Fir, with 

 undergrowth of Whortleberry. 



The wood path next to this goes nearly straight up 

 through the middle of the ground. It begins at another 

 point of the small lawn next the house, and passes 

 first by a turf walk through a mounded region of 

 small shrubs and carefully placed pieces of the local 

 ' sandstone. Andromeda, Skimmia and Alpenrose have 

 grown into solid masses, so that the rocky ridges peer 

 out only here and there. And when my friends say, 

 " But then, what a chance you had with that shelf 

 of rock coming naturally out of the ground," I 

 feel the glowing warmth of an inward smile and 

 think that perhaps the stones have not been so badly 

 placed. 



Near the middle of the woody ground a space was 



