Sept. 29.—(continued) Bougainvilleas 1n_ pote [were standing in a few of the corners while in the creek below we saw a lovely blue-flowered aquatic plant which we did not Mdentify to our Satisfaction: we propose to examine this plant Jmore thoroughly in due course, it looked charm-ting in the water, its blue flowers being produced: in' profusion. We continued our' stroll [past a "weeping" mulberry and many other im-Ported shrubs and arrived at the entrance to a woodland walk, We enjoyed our walk through this acacia grove where. we saw countless thousands of. that local "substitute" "for. the bluebell "of the English woods—"Temple of Heaven." We eventually arrived on a. grass walk on each side of which were borders which had been gay with annuals. Paulownia treevare also planted along each side and we can. im= gine how thi avenue will Jock from the house in the Spring. Continuing our stroll to the west saw hundreds of the more: common trees and many of the aristocrats of the plant world. 'Amongst these Wwe noticed. a shrub with very attractive bright crimson foliage which we identi-fed as the winged Euonymus (Buonymus alate) a Aowering Dog-wood and a shrubby Spires which was more at home than many' of our local shrubs are in some places. Space will not per~ [mit us to name all the plants we saw that we [should like to refer to, but we must mention olden willow and a beautiful variety of convolvulus, the latter was literally covered with large pale blue flowers, budy which will open [during the next few days were too numerous to count. Some of the plants have covered large Thuja shrub and" as we admired the charming effect, we were reminded of the coloured. pictures one sees in seed growers' catalogues. We saw some. healthy Lavender plants and also a purple salvia that interested lus, very much and which we believe to be Salvia splendens variety atropurpurea, We oh: served a fine wood-oil tree (Aleurites Fordit) ina charming canna—a salmon flowered variety which we would like to sce in other gardens, We noticed also that even the ponies had not been forgotten, they had a lawn. to themselves and a large sand-pit to roll in, The garden docs not end outside the house, it is continued inside, We saw artistically arranged vases and bowls everywhere we Tooked: some were small, other large, but they all showed that much care had been taken in their arrangement, The colours were blended perfectly. We gid not see many of our favourite. scarlet inulas, but we must admit that scarlet Isa man's colour and what does a mere man know about flower arrangement! When we returned from our visit to this garden we have attempt fed to describe, we felt as If we had paid a brief visit to a garden in England (or Scotland) and we cannot imagine a nicer way to spend a couple of hours.—w.
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