42 FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF MADEIRA 



plant in the garden, that here, as it is always said 

 flowers grow better for those who love them, 

 everything seems to flourish and grow at its 

 best. Like all good gardeners, she has not been 

 deterred by the failure of a plant one season or 

 the failure to import a new treasure at the first 

 attempt, but has given hosts of plants a fair trial, 

 often rewarded with success in the end, though 

 naturally failing in some cases. Plants have 

 been sent to her from all parts of the world, and 

 the island owes many of its flowery treasures to 

 this garden, which was originally their nursery 

 and trial ground. One of the most remarkable 

 instances of this is Streptosolen Jamesonii, origin- 

 ally introduced to this garden, but which only 

 succeeded the fourth time it was imported, and 

 has now spread, until there is hardly a humble 

 cottage garden in the whole of Funchal which is 

 not decorated with its orange bushes in the winter 

 months. The garden has been much enlarged of 

 late years, and gradually terrace after terrace has 

 been added to it, many of them forming a complete 

 little garden in themselves. From the lie of the 

 ground in a steep slope in two directions, and 

 possibly from the fact that the garden has been 

 added to gradually, it shares the difficulty I have 



