A GARDEN IN VENICE 



in any place protected from cold winds and shel- 

 tered from frost by a covering of leaves or of 

 moss or fine fodder. I have found this better 

 than sinking the pot in the soil, which with us, 

 perhaps owing to the salt it contains, is very cold 

 in winter. Roses so made gain a full year on 

 those taken from cuttings, and are strong flower- 

 ing plants by the next early summer. Most 

 varieties also last, and in all ways do so much 

 better than plants grafted on any stock that we 

 layer as soon as may be the many roses we get 

 from Lyons or elsewhere, earthing up the plant to 

 near the graft and bending one or more branches 

 under the soil, to root. 



In late May we have the lilies. Lilium candidum, 

 the only one of the genus that takes to us kindly, 

 borders our pergolas in such tall quantities that 

 the anniversary of their patron, Saint Antonio of 

 Padua, the thirteenth of June, is made lovely by 

 day and bright by night with the light of the 

 virgin flowers. On some evenings they even 

 drive us from the garden by their overwhelming 

 scent. They require re-planting with change of 

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