At a distance, in certain lights, they give the tree a pinkish tint and a new charm.
There is an agricultural college eight miles from Horsham.

We were driven out to it by its chief.

The conveyance was an open wagon; the time, noonday; no wind; the sky without a cloud, the sunshine brilliant -- and the mercury at 92 deg.

in the shade.

In some countries an indolent unsheltered drive of an hour and a half under such conditions would have been a sweltering and prostrating experience; but there was nothing of that in this case.