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delicate plants are placed. A miniature grove 

 of orange trees in tubs stands there during the 

 summer they have fruit and flowers on them, 

 and smell delightfully ; but, though healthy, they 

 look stunted fa my eyes, accustomed to those of 

 our favourite valley at the foot of the Corcorada 

 I mean the Laranjeros, where the orange trees 

 are so numerous at each side of the little stream 

 along which we used to have such delightful 

 walks. When shall I walk there again with 

 you, or wander about the pretty green plain, at 

 the entrance of the valley ? How often Mari- 

 anne and I have made you loiter there, while 

 we looked at the rivulet dashing over its stony 

 bed, or at the grotesque war-horsemen, in all 

 their various dresses ! 



In my aunt's flower-garden are hedges of 

 Chinese rose and sweet-brier, with pyrus japo- 

 nica intermixed. They are very pretty, but not 

 equal to ours of acacia and mimosa, with the 

 passion-flower twining through them, and the 

 bignonia and maranta forming such beautiful 

 garlands, particularly on our favourite green 

 plain. How unequal, too, in strength to those 

 fences that we saw at Pernambuco, made of 

 woven palm leaves, arid covered with our bril- 

 liant creeping plants ; or to those of yucca and 

 prickly pear, through which neither dog nor sheep 

 can penetrate. Her garden is on a bank, which 

 slopes from the conservatory to a little stream 



