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every conceivable crevice in the wall, and a fine collection of 
trloxenia, most o.f which he r^iised from imported seed brouplit from Holland 
mid on. which he is specializing. 
took leave of him end went dovm into 
the garden, v/here enchantment began. A hurrjlng noisy scmll brook dashed 
down the slope over huge boulders, and .-oachim with his flashlight went 
down it to look for fro^. The serrate leaves of a banana tree made a 
bold _t.‘autern against the sky, the wet leaves of the other trees around us 
made a thousand little glittering lights, and Bertha and i stook on a 
rock and looked at it all, surrounded by a kind of luminosity that was not 
moonlight and not lanplight, but something quite different from anything 
I ever imagined before. I felt as if i were in e tleatre, and that the 
stage was all set for a play, and that in a moment the hero and heroine would 
step out of the darkness and the play would begin. But nothing like that 
happened, because in a few minutes we saw Joachim's light making a million 
diamonds shine out in the brook, and he joined us on our rock. He now led 
the ?/ay to another part of the garden around a rock ledge in which myriads 
of delightful little plants were growing, and over which tall, pale blue 
agapanthus lilies were hanging their heads. This part of the garden led 
down into three or four artificial pools at a lower level, and there were 
huge pink and white water lilies ^7et v/ith min and gleaming in the light 
from the electric laitps. The frog cTiorus ceased as we came nearer, and 
now the real collecting began. Bertha flashed the first frog,— a green 
one j Hyla alb omarg i nata j sitting on an orange tree besi de the pond, 
moon she stowed me another much larger one iHjOa faberj also clingirg to a 
shrub, and she let me catch him ?/hile she held the light on his face. 
Joachim had caught some more at the edge of the pool, and now called me to 
see the nest of Hyla faber, — a most surprising bit of architectiare fully a 
foot long and three or four inches high, made of raid heaped up and hollowed 
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