OUR COUNTRY LIFE 



and by giving to each its own peculiar environment 

 coaxed them to flourish as though native here. From 

 South America and India, from Madagascar and Cali- 

 fornia, from Australia and Ceylon he has gathered 

 them, placing them among the native flora in so charm- 

 ing a fashion that there is no stiffness or formality, 

 merely a delightful luxuriance. Here one may become 

 acquainted with more than fifty-five hundred species, 

 yet never have the fact thrust upon him, so charmingly 

 natural is their arrangement among the water gardens 

 and mossy fountains, the ferny glens and pine forests. 



Tangles of Banksia roses fall over terrace walls, 

 trellises of a honeysuckle from Japan (Lonicera Japon- 

 ica), whose white sprays measure three feet in length, 

 tumble about the scarlet spikes of an agave. The 

 Linum tricynum bushes fill in many an otherwise 

 shadowy corner, their brilliant yellow flowers as large 

 as morning-glories. Anemones in all shades spring 

 up through the grass in fields of bloom with hyacinths 

 and jonquils, and iris in the moist places. Great flat 

 bunches of yellow senecio make effective backgrounds 



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