A GARDEN IN VENICE 



groups in front of such plants as Paris daisies, 

 agapanthus, azaleas, Canterbury bells, geraniums 

 in large masses of one shade, brilliant scarlet, or 

 pink or crimson, and then dwarfer plants such as 

 begonias, coleus, lobelia, mimulus, variegated 

 leaved callas, and a score of others ; with a fringe 

 in front of Convallaria japonica^ for once accept- 

 able, as it hides the pots, keeps them cool, and 

 is content to grow in the earth it also hides, 

 placed for its sustenance on the stone and brick 

 pavement. 



At the side of the Palazzina, facing the gar- 

 dener's cottage, is a similar border in a curving 

 line that marks out, whilst uniting, the groups 

 of the plants within it; and the wall above the 

 plants is covered with white jessamine, whilst 

 overhead hang a couple of broad rose arches, 

 the redundant shoots of Marechal Niel and Reine 

 Marie Henriette that throw themselves from the 

 gardener's cottage across the broad-paved passage 

 that separates it from the Palazzina. 



If hard to teach, however, their gentle Italian 

 manners make the garden men pleasant to work 



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