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VII. 



The Summer Garden The Bud dleia Ghent Azaleas The Mixed 

 Borders Roses The Green Rose. 



July 13. There is a longer interval than usual 

 since my last notes ; but I have been away among 

 the Soldanellas and the Gentians of Switzerland, 

 and I have had to leave my garden to the gar- 

 dener's care. Now that I have returned, I find 

 how much has gone on, and how much I must have 

 missed. The Nemophila bed, I hear, gradually 

 filled up and became a perfect sheet of brilliant 

 blue. The Anemone bed was very good, and 

 that of Ranunculus very fair; but best of all, as 

 I knew it would be, was the bed of Brier Roses, 

 with their trained branches laden with sweet little 

 yellow blossoms. 



The Kalmias too are over, and the alpine 

 Rhododendrons (Roses des Alpes) are also nearly 

 at an end ; but I have just found them wild 

 upon the Wengern Alp, and that must be my 



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