A GARDEN IN VENICE 



as much as possible the flowering season. It is 

 necessary to change a bed in rotation nearly 

 every year, for they grow so thick that the leaves 

 suffocate the flowers. The first year they do 

 little, the next two or three they bloom profusely, 

 and the next more poorly. The double flower- 

 ing plants, less social, require more space. They 

 seem to do best dispersed about in small colonies, 

 or singly, in places generally chosen by them- 

 selves, or moved to, aided by accident or perhaps 

 by birds. 



In May, early and mid, comes our great show, 

 the roses. We have very many kinds, but we 

 love best those that love us best, and are rather 

 fond of putting a good many of any of the varieties 

 that blow most freely in a mass, trying as to place 

 to suit their idiosyncrasies. A large group of 

 Comte de Paris, or Papa Gontier, in the shade 

 they seek ; or of Beaute Inconstante, Madame 

 Jules Grolez, Maria Immaculata, in the sun they 

 revel in. Further, there are so many roses, such 

 as Gustave Regis, Souvenir de Catherine Guillot, 

 Madame Eugene Resal, and her elder sister, 

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