46 My New Zealand Garden 



under glass in England- The colour is also richer 

 and fresher, and the flowers larger. Passiflora 

 incarnata, or ' Little Gem,' as I prefer to call it, 

 and under which name I bought it, hangs itself 

 in beautiful wreaths, quite a yard long, thickly 

 studded with its red puce flowers, some open, 

 some closed ; and no one can tell those which are 

 going to open from those which are over. A long 

 string of them is a very fascinating sight. I am 

 told that it is a herbaceous kind. It should 

 rank among the many gems. Ceanothus dentatits 

 is a sheet of blue, though only for a fortnight, 

 but its bright, cheerful foliage for the rest of the 

 year compensates for its rapid display of bloom. 

 It wants to grow as big as a house, and would if 

 I did not cut it to the bone every autumn. The 

 Austrian Copper Rose is, I suppose, the most 

 brilliant little piece of copper colour in the world 

 quite another little gem. 



I have now got to the last treasure on the 

 trellis, which I have saved purposely for a bonne 

 bouche, for it is a good bush. I mean the Emboth- 

 rium coccineum, which grows from Chili to the 

 Magellan Straits. It has orange-scarlet flowers 

 like continuous honeysuckle all down its long 

 whip-like branches, interspersed with handsome 

 elliptic-shaped rich green leaves. It has a dazz- 

 ling, dancing, graceful look, which strikes admira- 

 tion into everyone who sees it. The branches 



