{"id":136142,"date":"2023-05-01T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-1923-a-cherry-tree-worthy-of-song\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T05:11:46","slug":"country-diary-1923-a-cherry-tree-worthy-of-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-1923-a-cherry-tree-worthy-of-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary 1923: A cherry tree worthy of song"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n7 May 1923: It stands at the corner of the lawn and is as lovely in real life as Schumann\u2019s Nussbaum is in imaginationThis beautiful spell of summer weather has come just as the cherry tree is flowering. The cherry tree is worthy of a song by Schumann or by Schubert; it is as lovely in real life as the Nussbaum is in imagination. It stands at the corner of the lawn, and the yew hedge surrounds it with sheltering darkness. Look straight at the sun, and outside the swimming disc of blue a blaze of beams, white hot, strikes into you. Look at the cherry tree, it seems to have taken their very beams and cooled them. The upper branches, which rise into the sky, shine with a clearer radiance than the lower ones which the yew throws into relief; they have more transparency, and when we compare them with the light flecks of summer cloud the gossamer of the sky looks grey and heavy.Perhaps the chief beauty of the tree is that it is not white only, like the plum; the tender green of the young leaves appear everywhere; and the green lies all along the upper side of the branch, while the white, more than four times its volume, hangs modestly underneath. This is a white-heart cherry, not a wild one; but no fruit ever ripens on it, for the birds seem to prefer it a little unripe. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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