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rows of flowering bulbs, beautiful as they are ; but 
in the flowering shrubs and trees. The old gar- 
den had few shrubs, but it had unsurpassed beauty 
in its rows of fruit trees which in their blossoming 
give the spring garden, as here shown, that lovely 
A Thought of Winter’s Snows. 
whiteness which seems a blending of the seasons 
— a thought of winter’s snows. The perfection 
of Apple blossoms I have told in another chapter. 
Earlier to appear was the pure white, rather chilly, 
blooms of the Plum tree, to the Japanese “the 
eldest brother of an hundred flowers.” They are 
