SPANISH GARDENS 



tropical or subtropical garden, a young garden not 

 four years old, and because of spring's beginning 

 in Coronado in December, a winter garden as yet. 

 Here were not many flowers, but what there were 

 showed orange and yellow bloom. Calendula and 

 troUius were conspicuous and the effect with the 

 house walls was delicious. The beauty of line of the 

 little house is clearly shown in the illustration op- 

 posite page 198. The beauty of the garden at 

 the time of which I write lay in its foliage-color, 

 foliage-forms, and the arrangement of these. An 

 artist hath done this thing, exclaimed I to myself, 

 as I walked into the little garden. Standing at the 

 blue entrance-door, and looking down a slightly 

 curved walk to the street, it is the planting on 

 either side of the walk that first arrests one. On 

 the right, back of the low border, is a wonderfully 

 fine arrangement of the cylindrical cacti known as 

 the Mexican "Organ Pipe," and Cereus spacianus, 

 one of the choicest of bloomers; also, here are a 

 few low-growing varieties. Tall and dwarf these 

 are, but so well set with regard to each other as to 

 be of quite startling interest as a group. To the 

 left again, beyond the border, were long, irregular 

 colonies of lovely gray-leaved things. When first 

 I saw this house I thought I had never seen a 



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