The Garden in its Glonj 



now flowering. The splendid chirere is in 

 perfection, but not very commonly seen. The 

 soft yellow Tweediana is everywhere, a blaze of 

 colour at many a street-corner. If less insistent 

 in colour than the glorious orange venustiij the 

 queen of December and January, it may yet in 

 its great refinement be more pleasing to many 

 eyes. Purpurea^ a species with mauve flowers of 

 exquisite refinement, offers a pleasant contrast. 



At nightfall these climbers are visited by 

 flights of the Convolvulus Hawk Moth, which, 

 poised on fluttering wings, shoot an uncoiled 

 proboscis inches long into the heart of flower 

 after flower. I have counted a score of these 

 interesting insects at work within a few paces. 



At this season nothing is more supremely 

 lovely than the IVistaria, now in the full pride 

 of its vernal freshness, and endowed with a 

 notable grace and distinction which are all its 

 own. Its delicate shading and its variations of 

 hue in difl^erent lights, make it the despair 

 of almost all the many artists whose efibrts to 

 depict it we watch with interest. It has been 

 freely planted of recent years, and may now be 

 seen everywhere, with a serene impartiality 

 hangino: over dull walls in mean streets, and 



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