SPANISH GARDENS 



is a beautiful climber, chorizema, with spraylike 

 buds whicb as flowers will show rainbow colors. 

 Near by is a fine plant of Romneya Coulteri, or 

 Matilija poppy, and beyond that a bearing lemon- 

 tree in front of the kitchen window. Farther on 

 are fig-trees and guavas. Hanging above the en- 

 trance-porch, or loggia, of the house is an entranc- 

 ing growth of the orange-colored trumpet-vine, 

 Bignonia venusta, in full bloom all winter. The 

 vine literally drips flowers. The small, vivid 

 orange trumpets against a background of bright- 

 green leaves make the most perfect possible fram- 

 ing for the entrance-porch below. This small 

 porch has a floor of tile, and, as I have said, a 

 Spanish grille door of blue, of such a blue. On 

 either side of the porch stand specimen bushes of 

 streptosolen, with its clusters of velvet flowers in 

 all the hues of Gladiolus primulinus hybrids. 

 These carry the eye easily and delightfully up to 

 the colored hanging above. At the outer edge of 

 the tiled porch floor there is a border of the gray- 

 blue grass, Festuca, like a delicate reflection of the 

 sky. On the ochre wall beyond is the streptoso- 

 len, covered with its vivid flowers and delicate yel- 

 low buds. The blue-framed casement windows 

 are just above the orange-shaded streptosolen, and 



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