58 FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF MADEIRA 



Linum trigynum, and hosts of sweet-scented plants, 

 such as verbenas, sweet olives, sweet - scented 

 geraniums, diosmas, and many others. 



The lower terrace is almost entirely a rose- 

 garden, the Til garden having always been famous 

 for its roses. 



If a few plants of a new rose are imported, the 

 stock can be easily and quickly increased, as the 

 budding of roses, or even grafting, seems an easy 

 matter in this country. The buds take quickly, 

 and the stock may be either that of Rosa Bengkal- 

 ensis, which has become naturalized in the island, 

 or any rose which has been proved to have a good 

 constitution may be utilized as a parent. As I 

 have remarked elsewhere, the branch which has 

 been budded is as often as not layered in its turn, 

 and in a few weeks will have rooted, and can be 

 detached from the parent plant ; there seems no 

 reason that, once a new variety has been proved 

 to have taken kindly to the climate and soil, a 

 good stock should not be procured and a large 

 group of the same kind planted together, whereby 

 a much better effect is always obtained. 



A creeper-clad corridor leads to the group of 

 trees which have given their name to the quinta. 



Just above, on the Levada da Santa Luzia, is 



