stalks, bat their lower leaves are tarnlng yellow 

 agaia. I have given theai a drastis sprayiag with 

 oopper sulphate, whia:h I hope may oheok the advanae 

 of the disease. And the Bliaeberrias! Pour noble 

 plants laden svith buds! You shall have the first 

 pie. Well, all these details cannot interest you 

 very muoh, but ?liss Brown will have a sympathetic ear 

 f or them. 



I have been so busy that I have had no 

 tiftva to inspect the ohanges wrought by the Novenber 

 floods, but you are sure to find them most interesting 

 The Aston Place has changed hands twice during the 

 winter, and Is now going through still more enlarge- 

 ments which seem likely to ooroplete its ruin as a-w- 

 ornaaient to the town. If it goes on in this way it 

 can hardly fail to become a disreputable blot on the 

 landscape. 



Mr. P. is as busy as ever, though suffering 

 at present from a hard cough. He has been spending 

 much time at your cottage, which has renewed its youth 

 Lawrence is working hard getting the place in order. 

 Otherwise everything is as usual. The brook is tear- 

 ing down under the Oasino. The birches are at their 

 loveliest. Snov? lingers on the high mountains. 



Give my kind regards tO' Miss Brown and 



