spersed with leopard-lilies— those speckled beauties— and fringed about 

 with the elegant fronds of the lady-fern. 



Back from the margin, in a small grove of noble redwoods, the ground 

 is carpeted with the charming wood-sorrel (Oxalis Oregana) and the little 

 yellow wood-violet (Viola sempervirens) out of which rises here and there 

 the clintonia, most perfect of plants, with its symmetry of polished leaf, 

 its tall cluster of fine crimson flowers, and later its beautiful blue berries. 

 Here also two kinds of fairy-bells (Disporum) are to be seen growing with 

 two species of false Solomon's-seal (Smilacina), and the wild ginger with 

 its aromatic, shapely leaves and odd flowers mingling with little compa- 

 nies of wood-anemones. 



At one point on the stream there is a thicket of azaleas, whose masses 

 of white flowers fill the air with their delicious spicy fragrance in midsum- 

 mer long after the flowering-currant, one of the earliest things to bloom, 

 has passed away. 



A little way back from the stream, on the opposite side from the red- 

 woods, the ground rises gently, and here a great oak makes a canopy of 

 shade, and under Its picturesquely twisted branches various beds are gay 

 with a great variety of plants, such as blue larkspurs, airy scarlet colum- 

 bines, dicentras, hound's-tongues, woodland stars, godetias, clarkias, 

 several kinds of pentstemons, collinsias, numerous gilias, the St. John's- 

 wort, the eriophyllum, etc. On the upper side of the oak, still in the 

 shade, but where the ground is well drained and where an abundance of 

 rich leaf-mold has been placed, is the lily garden. This is the choicest 

 spot of all, for here are growing many of our very finest flowers, — our lilia- 

 ceous plants, — magnificent lilies, exquisite mariposa tulips in great varie- 

 ty, globe-tulips, fawn-lilies, several kinds of fritlllarias (most graceful of 

 flowers), brodiaeas of many species and of great variety of form and color- 

 ing, and two or three beautiful kinds of iris, as well as a number of other 

 lovely things. 



There is a little rustic bridge spanning the brook, over whose railing 

 runs the wild clematis, which in midsummer is a mass of white bloom, 

 and the violet nightshade, whose clusters of blue flowers are very pleasing. 



In another part of the garden, where two or three young trees have 

 died, the wild morning-glory has completely covered their ruin with a 

 bower of green foliage, flinging out its long sprays and making a beauti- 

 ful sight with its delicate pink and white funnels. 



Below the oak, and somewhat lower down the stream, there is a little 

 flat meadow. Here buttercups, white forget-me-nots, wild hollyhocks, 

 golden pansies, cream-cups, wallflowers, gay scarlet paint-brushes, lark- 

 spurs, shooting-stars, and wind-poppies make the ground brilliant in their 

 seasons, and are followed by masses of tidy-tips in late spring. Where 

 the shadow meets the sun the baby-blue-eyes draw heaven to earth. 



Another portion of this little field is sown entirely to eschscholtzia, and 

 is the most brilliant mass of color in the garden on a sunny morning when 

 every great satiny flower is open. Near by the blue-and-white lupine 

 makes masses of amethystine color, and the pure white lupine is abundant 

 and handsome. Here on many a late afternoon I have watched the white 

 moons of the evening-primroses unfolding amid their silvery foliage. 



This garden is fortunate in having an abundant supply of water and 

 a very considerable variety of soil and climate in a comparatively small 

 space. To me one of its most interesting features is the shrubbery, for 

 here are assembled a truly superb collection of fine native shrubs — a num- 

 ber of species of wild lilac, the large-flowered dogwood, the Oregon grape 

 or barberry, the sweet-scented shrub, the silk-tassel bush, wild roses, and 

 spiraeas, the bridal wreath, syringa, tree-poppy, manzanita, rhododendron, 

 fuchsia-flowered gooseberry, the Judas-tree, one or two species of rham- 

 nus, or buckthorn, and several of rhus, or sumach, and many more — 

 all beautiful. 



There is one small swampy spot which is filled with the beautiful blue 

 kamass, and another open, exposed place which in driest summer is gay 



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