A GARDEN IN VENICE 



the contrasts and juxtaposition of plants and 

 tints, and so to plan and grow a very lovely and 

 finished picture. 



This is as a Meissonier to a Tintoretto. But 

 Tintoret is the better master for Venice. The 

 extent is ample, the borders many and long, the 

 separate divisions of beds are numerous, and a 

 bigger brush can be rilled with fuller colour and 

 the plants planted in larger masses. 



In Italy, too, flowers grow and multiply in a 

 way unknown to England, and it is wise to take 

 advantage of Nature's bounty. 



As the cabbage and artichokes of our prepos- 

 sessors gave way to the daffodils, anemones, and 

 tulips mostly brought from Holland, the produce 

 of these bulbs yearly made demand for greater 

 space. Small islets of foxgloves or columbines 

 or larkspurs spread themselves into continents, 

 and a splash of Love in the Mist flowed over 

 into a sea of blue. The vigour, too, of the 

 plants that love the soil is so great that to reduce 

 them and their groups to the dimensions that are 

 observed in what is called a well-kept garden 

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