88 A GARDEN OF PLEASURE 



borders ; but the cultivated ground seems 

 to give a certain fatness to leaf, and stalk, 

 and flower, which takes just so much off 

 from their perfect beauty. 



Coming out of the wood, a sharp turn 

 to the left leads one into a fair round 

 green, and * Glorietta ' smiles out of the 

 enclosing thicket. Parrot tulips flaunt 

 in yellow and scarlet rags, amid purple 

 iris and red anemones, round one-half of 

 the charmed circle ; the other half, being 

 turned from the sun, can only boast of 

 late green buds. A deeper interest lies in 

 the junipers above the budding tulips, 

 for there the birds build, and know them- 

 selves secure. 



