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recesses for the nests made by the ingenious plac- 
ing of the bricks are alike in both cotes. 
A beautiful and fitting tenant of old formal gar- 
dens was the peacock, “ with his aungelis federys 
bryghte.” On large English estates peacocks were 
universally kept. A fine peacock, with full-spread 
Beehives under the Trees. 
tail, makes many a gay flower bed pale before 
his panoply of iridescence and color. The pea- 
hen is a demurely pretty creature. Peacocks are 
not altogether grateful to garden owners ; on the 
old Narragansett farm whose garden is shown 
on page 35, they were always kept, and it was 
one of the prides and pleasures of formal hospi- 
