Leaves from a Madeira Garden 



to experience within the space of an hour or 

 two quite a variety of climates, each furnished 

 with its characteristic vegetation. From the 

 sea-level, with its sub-tropical wealth of gorgeous 

 climbers, its sugar-cane, mangoes and bananas, 

 you ascend a thousand feet to find groves of 

 oranges and lemons. A little higher you enter 

 a region of pine-trees, with gardens where the 

 hardy fuchsias and the hydrangeas grow to an 

 immense size, where the ground is carpeted 

 with agapanthus lilies, and the hedges are bright 

 with mimosa blossom in spring. Higher still, 

 passing from the pine-woods, you come to a 

 moorland region faintly recalling some of the 

 wilder parts of North Wales or Cumberland, 

 while above are the bare and fantastic crags 

 which have been compared to those of the 

 Dolomites. So you may pass in a short space 

 from the sub-tropical region to the Riviera, from 

 the Riviera to Bournemouth, from Bournemouth 

 to Carnarvonshire, and from Carnarvonshire to 

 the Alps. 



Our mountain garden lies in the middle of 

 these regions. As the domain is full of deci- 

 duous trees, it presents at this season quite a 

 wintry aspect. But the camelias are in flower, 



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