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is certainly one of the roses which thrive best in 

 Madeira, bearing its burden of yellow and pink- 

 tipped blossoms in the spring. On the corridor 

 above a host of creepers flourish, but the blossoms of 

 the Burmese rose were new to me. Its large single 

 blooms open a delicate lemon colour, which gradu- 

 ally turns to white, and its shiny foliage is also very 

 ornamental ; but I fear its constitution will never 

 stand the cold of our English winters, or even if it 

 survived the cold, the warmth of our summers would 

 not be sufficient to ripen the wood enough to make 

 it flower. I believe it to be the same rose which 

 has been grown with some success on the Riviera 

 under the name of Rosa grandiflora. Near by is 

 its fellow-countryman, the Burmese honeysuckle, 

 suggesting a monster form of French honeysuckle ; 

 the foliage of its long twining branches closely 

 resembles it, only on a very large scale, and the 

 white trumpets of its blossoms, instead of being one 

 or one and a half inches long, are from four to five 

 inches in length. The heavy scent is almost over- 

 powering, coming at a season of the year when the 

 air seems to bring out the scent of the flowers to 

 such an extent that they become almost offensive. 



The garden is so full of interesting trees and 

 shrubs that it would be a hopeless and never- 



