He ought to be back any minute if he 'ain't stopped to brag with old man Gredel that our arbutus beats his."

And at this point he noted that the arbutus-flush in her cheeks began to widen slowly, until, at last, it had burned back to the little pink ears, and had merged into the coppery glory of her hair, and had made her, if such a thing were possiblewhich a minute ago it manifestly was not,more beautiful and adorable and indescribable than ever before.

From its beauty and size it obtained a figurative meaning; and the arbutus or strawberry-tree (Arbutus unedo) is the symbol of inseparable love, and the narcissus denotes self-love, from the story of Narcissus, who, enamoured of his own beauty, became spell-bound to the spot, where he pined to death.

From its beauty and size it obtained a figurative meaning; and the arbutus or strawberry-tree (Arbutus unedo) is the symbol of inseparable love, and the narcissus denotes self-love, from the story of Narcissus, who, enamoured of his own beauty, became spell-bound to the spot, where he pined to death.

[Illustration] No pains have been spared to render the remainder of the journey attractive to either the rider or the pedestrian, and to us the drive up the broad zigzags, planted with plane trees, silver beech, ash, polonia, aspen, arbutus, burberis, and innumerable other handsome trees and shrubs, was a pleasant one indeed.

Arbutus Unedo* Baccharis halimifolia Clerodendron trichotomum Clethra acuminata* alnifolia Daphne Cneorum* Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora* Olearia Haastii Gunniana Photinia japonica Microglossa albescens* Tecoma grandiflora* OCTOBER.

It wasn't the same woman: her thin cheeks flushed arbutus-like, and her rather metallic voice was grown low and gentle.

Presently she tore across the lawn to the shrubbery which screened the lawn and flower gardens from the winding carriage drive sunk many feet below, and disappeared in a thicket of arbutus and Irish yew.

She became unconscious that she touched the earth; she went skimming bird-like over the lawn, and in and out, with fluttering muslin frock, among arbutus and bay, yew and laurel, till she stood poised lightly on the top of the wooded bank which bordered the steep ascent to Lady Maulevrier's gate, looking down at two figures which were sauntering up the drive.

The sides are covered with thickets of broom, myrtle, arbutus, ilex, mastic and laurel, overgrown with woodbine, and interspersed with patches of sage, lavender, hyssop, wild thyme, and rue.

Now and then, from the thickets of laurel and arbutus, a shrill shepherd's reed piped some joyous woodland melody.

Rare, lovely mosses and bits of most delicate ferns, maidenhair and lady-bracken, tiny trails of wintergreen and arbutus, filled a great shallow Indian china dish upon her bureau top, and grew, in their fairy fashion, in the clear, soft water she kept them freshened with.

It was because the Mountain-Pine found in the moss of Redleaf the sweet Trailing-Arbutus.

We used to call Mary 'The Arbutus,' and it was pleasant to see the great rough branches of Abraham's nature drooping down, more and more, toward the pink-and-white pale flower that looked into the sky, from a level as lofty as the Pine's highest crown.

It was Mary's portrait that once more I looked upon; framed in a wreath of the trailing-arbutus, it was hanging just where he could look at it at night, as I my strange tower-key.

The best things I have done are trailing arbutus and apple-blossoms.

Will you send me some more pictures, and in your letter please tell me how to make the light-green in the large arbutus leaf; I tried all sorts of experiments, but failed to get such a toned-down tint.

She painted a spray of trailing arbutus, talking while she was doing it, as nobody else could, about things beloved and fair.

" Arbutus (Strawberry Tree).Elegant evergreen shrubs with dark foliage of great beauty during October and November, when they produce an abundance of pearly-white flowers, and the fruit of the previous year is ripe.

'Oh, the Arbutus!' sighed Bessie.

"It is the last of the arbutus," he said, dropping his voice to a gentle monotone.

KILLARNEY (5), market-town and tourist centre, in co. Kerry, Ireland, on the shores of the lake, 15 m. SE. of Tralee; has a Roman Catholic cathedral and some arbutus-carving industry.

ARBUTUS uva-ursi.

235 Arbutus Unedo Common Strawberry Tree b.l. 236 - v. fl.

A sweet perfume filled the inclosure; it came to me through the branching evergreens; it was from Mary's grave, covered with the pale pink flowers of the trailing-arbutus.