46 FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF MADEIRA 



grown from a cutting brought from Longwood, 

 provides a home for the white, pink, and blue 

 water-lilies, which, with a large clump of papyrus, 

 speedily remind one that one is in subtropical 

 regions, where no breath of winter will ever reach 

 the water sufficiently to bring death to the blue 

 lilies which we in England know as pampered 

 flowers, and can only grow by providing them with 

 a warm bath, heated by artificial means. 



On one of the terraces broad sheets of the mauve 

 Virginian stock with us an unconsidered little 

 flower, but here, from the sheer wealth of its 

 blossoms, providing a mass of colour lead to a 

 little Iris garden. Only the white Iris Florentina 

 and a deep purple Iris Germanica really seem to 

 flourish, so the beds are filled with these two kinds 

 only. Iris Pallida and many of the other beautiful 

 varieties of Iris Germanica have refused to make 

 a home here, so the two kinds only have been 

 retained, and for a few weeks in late December and 

 early January the little garden is all purple and 

 w r hite. The purple weigandia flowers and the 

 white of the Porto Santo daisy- trees help to carry 

 out the colour scheme. The walls of the little 

 garden are clad with the old Fortune's yellow 

 roses, called by some Beauty of Glazenwood, and it 



