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an Teplitz, and above with the evergreen 

 shoots and pale-sulphur single flowers of 

 the Wichuraiana, Jersey 'Beauty, through which 

 a vigorous Reve cT Or has thrown long branches 

 round the corner of the house from the north. 

 On the other side Jaune Desprez interlaces 

 its shoots sometimes ten or twelve feet long 

 in a year with the more delicate growth 

 of Madame Alfred Carriere, whose peerless 

 white blossoms mingle with the rich salmon 

 and pink of Fortune s Yellow, while Ophirie 

 at the corner below meets Climbing Captain 

 Christy round the drawing-room windows. 

 Fortune's Tellow is the greatest of my suc- 

 cesses here ; a source of pride and delight 

 to its happy possessor, and of envy to the 

 prophets of misfortune, who one and all 

 declared I should never get it to flower. 

 But with vivid recollections of its exquisite 

 effect tumbling over a high grey stone wall 

 by the dusty roadside from Genoa to Pegli, 

 I determined to try. And each year from 

 the ground to the roof it is showered over 

 with scores of lovely blossoms. I cannot 



