THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



jasmines white and yellow, lantanas, roses or 

 the Madeira vine. More frequently than not 

 they are planted also, in strong masses, with 

 ever so many beautiful sorts of firmer-stemmed 

 growths, herbaceous next the sod, woody be- 

 hind, assembled according to stature, from one 

 to twelve feet high, swinging in and out around 

 the lawn until all stiffness of boundaries is 

 waved and smiled away. 



In that first week of January already men- 

 tioned the present writer saw at every turn, in 

 such borders and in leaf and blossom, the deli- 

 cate blue-flowered plumbago; two or three 

 kinds of white jasmine, also in bloom; and the 

 broad bush-form of the yellow jasmine, begin- 

 ning to flower. With them were blooming 

 roses of a dozen kinds; the hibiscus (not althaea 

 but the H. rosasinensis of our Northern green- 

 houses), slim and tall, flaring its mallow- 

 flowers pink, orange, salmon and deep red; 

 the trailing-lantana, covering broad trellises of 

 ten feet in height and with its drooping masses 

 of delicate foliage turned from green to mingled 

 hues of lilac and rose by a complete mantle of 



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