A GARDEN IN VENICE 



marble, stone, and metal. Other species have 

 double flowers, red, red and white, and white ; 

 the first two grow luxuriantly and are beautiful. 



I might here mention a peach that, new to me, 

 was brought us from Valdobiadene, near Feltre. 

 The flower is very double, and a lovely red 

 colour. The fruit, for, unlike many double- 

 flowering trees, it fruits freely, is of a double form, 

 such as one sees occasionally in a sport of plums. 



At Battaglia we had seen a wondrous China 

 rose hedge, high and thick, one mass of bloom 

 and loveliness. In partial imitation, and perhaps 

 in betterment, as far as material goes, we planted 

 a hedge of that dearest and sweetest of roses, the 

 old cabbage, on either side of a vine pergola 

 more than a hundred and fifty yards long. Our 

 lines of cabbage roses do not grow thick and high 

 as the Battaglia China, and it is high praise to 

 say of any rose that it can be better for the pur- 

 pose of a hedge than a really good specimen of 

 Bengaliensis ; but in late May or early June, when 

 other roses are for the moment going off betwixt 

 their blowing seasons, this pergola is very 



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