ILLUSTRATIONS 



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The bridge to the island 252 



Ciscoville 253 



The waiting ice-boat 253 



A winter conservatory 276 



The old well of St. Francis 276 



A water picture was revealed 277 



"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them" . . . 286 



"But the children that is another matter" ". 298 



The power to make things grow 298 



Weeding long beds of iris 299 



The helplessness and response of much loved flowers . . . 299 



Barbary figs at La Mortola 312 



The lodge has disappeared under a tangle of rose and wistaria 



a Venice garden 312 



Landing at the island of the Sirdar 313 



Dom palms on the island of the Sirdar . . . . . . .313 



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