170 A GARDEN OF PLEASURE 



used in the painting of either flower. Our 

 old walls are all well-furnished with the 

 vivid orange-scarlet glow of tropseolum. 

 It gives promise, too, of lasting on as long 

 as winter frosts delay. I cannot give the 

 name of this special variety of Tropaeolum, 

 or nasturtium is it? Its leaf is bluish 

 and round, and the plant seems to be 

 always in flower, from August until far 

 into November. 



In the entrance court the old use- 

 less green gages and golden drop plum 

 trees against the walls are dressed out in 

 these gay flowers, climbing, streaming, 

 creeping, clustering about all over them, 

 branch and stem. The vivid colouring 

 is splendid ; it seems but a few days 

 since it mixed in many places with the 

 purple of Jackman's clematis. At this 

 moment the blossoms intermingle here 

 and there with tall, yellow helianthus. 

 The aged fruit trees are doomed, and 

 flowering climbers are to cover the walls 

 in their place. The standard cherry tree 

 between the pyramid yews is to be cut 

 down, and a broader flower border to be 



