JULY 387 



flower in Jiily, and really most effective, handsome 

 plants — quite as effective as the Cape Agapanthus, so 

 much commoner with us. They would look showy on 

 lawns, and would, I think, do well in tubs, if they got 

 sun and water enough. 



The lovely yellow Day Lily, which flowers earlier, has 

 done well with me in full sun, never moved at all, but 

 mulched and watered in dry weather at the flowering 

 time. 



There are several so -called new varieties of Hemero- 

 callis, and all seem worth growing when they can be 

 made really to succeed ; but, though apparently coarse- 

 growing plants, they must be fed, and in a shrubbery in 

 this soil they would hardly make healthy leaves. 



The shrubberies round about the villas in the 

 neighbourhood of Geneva were quite as badly pruned — 

 often all on one side, and as much choked up — as ours 

 in England, or more so. All that the inhabitants seem 

 to care for is what makes dense shade, which, of course, 

 they need more than we do. A large Privet, called 

 Ligustrum sinense, was flowering very .well, and is 

 effective and worth growing in villa gardens, in spite of 

 its rather disagreeable smell. It is a good flowerer in 

 July, a rare quality among shrubs. 



July 8th. — I carried out my wish and remained a night 

 at B^le, resisting the greater convenience of the station 

 hotel for the old, famous, and handsomely rebuilt post- 

 house of ' The Three Kings,' with its balconies over the 

 rushing, splendid Rhine. To the ignorant this river 

 looks as if its water-power were stupendous ; as a fact, 

 it cannot even be used to make the electric light for the 

 town, the level of the river varies so immensely. 



Time was short and the weather wet, so I only saw 

 the museum or picture gallery, which was what I had 

 come to see. BSle to me meant two things — Erasmus 



