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luminous black, tell among the glossy Rhododendron 

 green ; and how strangely , different is the way of 

 growth of the two kinds of tree ; the tall white trunks 

 spearing up through the dense, dark, leathery leaf- 

 masses of soUd, roundish outline, with their delicate 

 network of reddish branch and spray gently swaying far 

 overhead ! 



Now we come to the lawn, which slopes a little 

 downward to the north. On the right it has a low 

 retaining-wall, whose top line is level ; it bears up a 

 border and pathway next the house's western face. 

 The border and wall are all of a piece, for it is a dry 

 wall partly planted with the same shrubby and half- 

 shrubby things that are in the earth above. They 

 have been comforting to look at all the winter ; a 

 pleasant grey coating of Phlomis, Lavender, Rosemary,' 

 Cistus, and Santolina ; and at the end and angle where 

 the wall is highest, a mass of Pyrus japonica, planted 

 both above and below, already showing its rose-redi 

 bloom. At one point at the foot of the wall is a, 

 strong tuft of Iris stylosa whose first blooms appeared 

 in November. This capital plant flowers bravely all 

 through the winter in any intervals of open weather. 

 It likes a sunny place against a wall in poor soil. If 

 it is planted in better ground the leaves grow very tall 

 and it gives but little bloom. 



Now we pass among some shrub-clumps, and at the 

 end come upon a cheering sight ; a tree of Magnolid 

 conspicua bearing hundreds of its great white cups of 

 fragrant bloom. Just before reaching it, and taking 

 part with it in the garden picture, are some tall bushes 



