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such good substance, that I never see them without 

 being reminded of those handsomest of red Camellias 

 that are only half double, and whose petals stand 

 up with a certain freedom that makes them so much 

 more truly beautiful than those that have them 

 laid flat and exactly evenly arranged. The rest of 

 the little border has two China Roses, some Lady 

 Fern and Musk, and next the door the sweet French 

 Honeysuckle {Lonicera flexuosa). Just to the right of 

 the short tunnel of Yew at the Hut entrance — the 

 tunnel becomes hedge only, for daylight's sake, for 

 the three yards nearest the door — is a Holly of rather 

 upright shape some twenty feet high. Before the 

 cottage was built I planted near its foot a Clematis 

 montana and a Dundee Rambler Rose, and as they 

 grew, trained them to run up through its branches. 

 The Clematis went up quickest, and for two or three 

 years made a fairly good show, but has not done very 

 much since ; but the Rose now fills the top of the 

 Holly, and the picture gives some idea of the way 

 the flowery ends come tumbling out, though no 

 representation in black and white can show the 

 charming way that the tender, pink-tinged masses 

 of the little Rose- clusters are seen upon their ground 

 of the prickly shining Holly leaves and of the softer 

 sombre Yew. 



Dear little Hut ! how sorry I was to leave it, even 

 to go to the better house that I had long looked for- 

 ward to as that most precious possession, a settled 



