The full power of the on-rushing spring is upon it, and I imagine I can see it grow.

Alongside the bank and a little way back in the garden there is a row of soaring fountain-sprays of delicate feathery foliage quivering in the breeze, and mottled with flashes of light that shift and play through the mass like flash-lights through an opal--a most beautiful tree, and a striking contrast to the cottonwood.

Every leaf of the cottonwood is distinctly defined--it is a kodak for faithful, hard, unsentimental detail; the other an impressionist picture, delicious to look upon, full of a subtle and exquisite charm, but all details fused in a swoon of vague and soft loveliness." It turned out, upon inquiry, to be a pepper tree--an importation from China.

It has a silky sheen, soft and rich.

I saw some that had long red bunches of currant-like berries ambushed among the foliage.