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Virginia Creeper.
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Hughenden Church—Autumn creepers.
Many English houses are covered with creepers which are green in the summer and then turn to red—to blood-red at times—before the leaves finally drop and leave the house naked. This is the Virginia Creeper, which did not originally grow in Britain, but was brought from America. And here is a church clothed with red Virginia Creeper. Green ivy is a creeper native to Britain. It clothes with green many old buildings throughout the winter, because its leaves are like leather, and thick, and can withstand the cold.
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Leafless Elm Trees.
This is a December landscape. The trees have shed their leaves, and their naked boughs are clear against the sky. See the bleak appearance of the land, so that you may look over miles and miles of open country, though it is studded with many trees. To the eye of one accustomed to the tropical forest, England in the winter time is a naked and strange land.
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Cottage, Winter Scene.
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Winter Scene in Wood.
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Frozen Lake side with hoar-frost.
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Hockey on ice.