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landscape can show. In clear weather the further 

 distances have tints of an extraordinary purity, while 

 the more frequent days of slightly distant haze have 

 another kind -of beautiful mystery. 



The common Laurel is generally seen as a long- 

 suffering garden hack, put to all sorts of rather ignoble 

 uses. It is so cheap to buy, so quick of growth and 

 so useful as an easily made screen that its better use 

 is, except in rare instances, lost sight of. Planted in 

 thin woodland and never pruned, it grows into a small 

 iree that takes curious ways and shapes of trunk and 

 branch of a character that is remarkably pictorial. 



