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clover, which baffled all other bees. Next on the 

 trellis is Akebia quinata, which has monopolized 

 30 feet in one direction, going at breakneck speed, 

 the young shoots clutching hold of each other and 

 forming ropes before one can look round. It tried 

 to gallop over the Lapagerias in the other direc- 

 tion, so the shears had to come and keep order ; 

 but its lovely real puce-coloured, sweet-scented 

 flowers quite atoned for its aggressiveness. Its 

 five-fingered foliage seems to suit it exactly, but 

 I always think each flower has the foliage which 

 suits it best or it may be imagination. Next 

 comes the Gelsemium, derivecl from the Italian 

 name for Jessamine. It seems to like peeping out 

 among the Akebia, finding shelter for its young 

 shoots, which object to the frost. Here is a 

 beautiful Rose called Madam Fernet, though I am 

 not sure that it has not a third name. The colour 

 of it is the deepest, brightest shell-pink ever seen 

 in any shell, and the substance of its petals so 

 shell-like that an elastic imagination may see 

 a resemblance. It will hold out all night on a 

 ball-dress against all competitors, and its many 

 points of excellence have placed it as Laureate 

 in our garden. It has an exceptionally good and 

 large bed, which it shares with Poinciana Gilliesii, 

 its next-door neighbour. 



What a wonder this Poinciana is ! The vernacular 

 name which the natives have for it in Mendoza 



