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else equal to what I grow here in November; one can see 

 its masses of dazzling scarlet on my terrace from a boat 

 sailing about in the bay. 



Tigridias live out all the year. Some seasons they 

 even seed themselves profusely, and I have seen the 

 seedlings coming up thick in the gravel walks. In a good 

 July I have seen the tea-roses on my lower terrace wall 

 almost as good as on the Riviera, but the hybrid per- 

 petuals do decidedly less well here, I think, than they do, 

 for instance, in Hertfordshire, and florists' Anemones 

 and Ranunculus and also the Moutan Paeony have so far 

 nearly defied me. On some of my lower walls I grow 

 the Correas, and C. alba blooms the whole winter through 

 and is most charming. Callistemons (the scarlet bottle- 

 brush) flower, and Cassia corymbosa, Habrothamnus 

 elegans, and Romneya, seem quite happy ; J^6eZm quinata, 

 Lapageria, and Mandevilla suaveolens are growing, but 

 have not yet bloomed with me. 



Just one more remark, and that is about our rainfall. 

 This is supposed to be a very wet part of the country, 

 but, according to my gardener, who keeps his rain-gauge 

 very carefully, we had under 55 inches in 1907, whereas 

 there are places in Britain where the fall is 130 and even 

 140 inches. 



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