House £s? Garden 
“ UPLAND VILLA” 
practicable. The whole island group is 
like a museum of rare growths from every 
land. Curiously, good grass is, in its per¬ 
fection, the rarest luxury. As all water used 
must be stored in cisterns, it is hard to pro¬ 
vide enough to keep a large lawn in good 
condition. This may account for what at 
first seems an excess of plantation, a tropic 
richness of effect which narrows vistas and 
restricts open spaces, but which, after all, 
THE BISHOP’S LODGE 
justifies itself where sunlight is intense. The 
stately royal palm, the most impressive tree 
upon the islands, grows too slowly for much 
use in gardening, but there are smaller 
varieties, the date palm, the gru-gru, the screw 
palm and the common palmetto, that more 
quickly fill their places. For dark back¬ 
ground masses, nothing could be better than 
the cedars that grow freely in the red dust 
of their ancestors ; and in winter the bare 
A TROPICAL HOME BERMUDA 
