16 ORNAMENTAL GARDENING 



wide, encircling veranda or gallery as it is often called in South 

 Florida and the West Indies, and the rather sharp roof which 

 has never leaked seriously in the worst hurricane. Some of the 

 ideas embodied in it have been taken from dwellings in Jamaica, 

 Hawaii, Haiti, Cuba and the Philippines; others are my 

 own, and it is not like anything in the heavens above, the earth 

 beneath, or the waters under the earth. 



Nature is very kind in this land of warmth and sunshine, 

 where every one plants trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants in 

 their grounds and around their dwellings. In a few brief years 

 the growing vegetation covers up and hides the deformities and 

 mistakes of the builder; trees screen it out and kindly vines 

 most mercifully spread themselves over the architectural enor- 

 mities that man has perpetrated, so that at length his short- 

 comings and blunders are made a part of a thing of beauty and 

 elegance. 



