A BEAUTIFUL FRUIT GARDEN 141 



Medlars, for Quinces, again some of the most graceful 

 of small British trees ; for Service, Damson, Bullace, 

 Crabs and their many allies, not fruit-bearing trees 

 except from the birds' and botanists' points of view, 

 but beautiful both in bloom and berry, such as the 

 Mountain Ash, Wild Cherry, Blackthorn, and the 

 large-berried White-thorns, Bird-Cherry, White Beam, 

 Holly and Amelanchier. Then all these might be inter- 

 grouped with great brakes of the free-growing Roses 

 and the wilder kinds of Clematis and Honeysuckle. 

 And right through it should be a shady path of Filberts 

 or Cobnuts arching overhead and yielding a grateful 

 summer shade and a bountiful autumn harvest. 



