A GARDEN IN VENICE 



in. Of these we have a great profusion. Purple, 

 pale blue, and white, bronze and yellow, Floren- 

 tine, English and German, Spanish and Japanese. 

 In a long border that joins one side of the cherry 

 orchard large groups of different kinds are grow- 

 ing, and when in flower they so fill the eye that 

 as one looks up the border more than a hundred 

 yards long, leading to the square of the cherry 

 orchard, it seems one continuous mass of their 

 bloom. Round three sides of this orchard there 

 is little else except some lilies of the valley, the 

 offshoots as it were ot the fourth side, which 

 is filled with them growing beside and under 

 cabbage roses. 



These delicious so-called lilies make full return 

 for our love and small demand upon our care. It 

 is an amusement for young women in the spring 

 to pick them in large bunches, or rather to pull 

 them, for the lily flower stalk should be pulled 

 out of its socket, never broken. To favour this 

 pastime and for ourselves, we have four or five 

 plots some ten to fifteen yards long in the trans- 

 verse borders ; the sites chosen so as to prolong 



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