Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 144
To LADY BEAUFORT.
EDGEWORTHSTOWN, May 31, 1846.
I hope, dear Honora, that the rhododendrons will not exhaust themselves; at this moment yours opposite the library window are in the most beautiful profuse blow you can conceive, and at the end of my garden indescribably beautiful, and scarlet thorn beside. The peony tree has happily survived its removal, and is covered with flowers.