ROSE PERGOLA, THE ACHILLEION 



buds to welcome the arrival of their imperial 

 owner. For these few weeks only, the upper 

 terraces were a blaze of colour, odd corners just 

 outside the garden walls blushed red with 

 poppies, and rows of flowering plants in pots 

 lined both sides of the short approach to the 

 palace door, and were changed every few days 

 when, with military exactitude, their successors 

 had reached the necessary stage of bloom. Look- 

 ing over the roof of one of the two rose pergolas 

 on the second terrace from the palm garden on 

 the upper one with its great clusters of red and 

 white roses seen over the top of white marble 

 balustrades, we get a glimpse of the Ionian 

 Straits and the mountains of Epirus through the 

 olive and cypress trees beyond the garden. 



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