Help needed with unknown word!

I have been editing transcriptions this week, which has been great fun reading about Wallace's exploits! However, I have become stuck on a word that I just can't decipher and I thought I'd ask any eagle-eyed readers out there if they would like to have a guess at what it could be!

The letter is written by Wallace to his son, William in 1901 and he is talking about overseeing the building of Old Orchard, his last home he lived in in Dorset.

The sentence with the indecipherable word in reads "The air was so fine, the views so pleasant, & the look of the [?] shrubs & trees so nice that I quite long to spend my days there".

The image below shows the unknown word bordered in red.



Any suggestions gratefully received! Please email c.catchpole@nhm.ac.uk

-Caroline-