Leaves from a Madeira Garden 



bounds this drive is no longer visible, being 

 covered from end to end with the Chinese 

 white single rose, not as yet in flower, but in 

 March to be resplendent in snow-white purity. 

 The little pond was deprived of its melancholy 

 duck, and is now a watery wilderness of 

 papyrus and lilies. The general effect is not 

 unpleasing. It may be that it lacks dignity 

 and repose, but it is typically Madeiran, a 

 glorified and extended cottage-garden. And 

 it is rich not only in colour but in variety 

 and surprise. 



One thing these Southern gardens lack, the 



" Wet, bird-haunted English lawn." 



Grass can be grown, with care and trouble, 

 but it is not quite the same thing. And it is 

 a question whether it is worth while to strive 

 at all for that in which we cannot hope to attain 

 a reasonable degree of success. In gardening, 

 as in other things, which is our best course : 

 to cultivate what suits our earth and climate to 

 perfection — to develop our potentialities on 

 their natural lines, or to set ourselves to fight 

 with obstacles ; to grow rhododendrons in chalky 

 Sussex, or to foster the reluctant primrose 

 here ? Different natures will give different 



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