VARIOUS GARDENS 



blue ageratum, the other has for occupants helio- 

 tropes encircled by a band of sweet alyssum. 



Terraces are here with fine retaining walls, well- 

 planted terraces; curving stone steps and walks 

 also curving follow the line of the precipitous 

 rock which divides the wild from the cultivated 

 part of this place; a charming fan-shaped rose- 

 garden occupies a secluded spot but with its own 

 view of the ocean. A little platform of green- 

 sward enclosed by a square-clipped hedge of privet 

 forms a base for the fine Italian well-head with 

 its "overthrow" of restrained design shown in the 

 illustration. All this clear green and dazzling ar- 

 chitectural whiteness shines against the blue ex- 

 panse of sea and sky. And in another portion of 

 the place such blooming of Iris Kaempferi takes 

 place as is seldom seen away from the Flowery 

 Kingdom. (By the by, why does not some one 

 have the sense and grace to call his or her garden 

 by this ever-charming title ?) 



It is with the mind's eye only that I have seen 

 this garden. May it be my happy lot to walk in 

 it at no distant time. While the work it requires 

 is done, its mistress assures me, only by herself and 

 her Italian gardener, the harvest of flowers here 

 above the "unharvested sea" is truly remarkable. 



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