. My garden in summer . oots, and two only, shouldbe allowed up the wall that season, so I guided themto friendly strings and tore up all the others, and shortlyafter went to gather plants in the Alps. On my return I found BoussingauUia had behaved asJacks beanstalkily as ever, so now he has been ejected,and Passiflora coeruUa Constance Elliott may have somepeace and be able to produce her lovely, carved ivoryflowers without a cold poultice of BoussingauUia leavesslapped on to their white faces. Acacia Baileyana was mywildest bid for a startling achievement in acclimatisation,and my most decis
. My garden in summer . oots, and two only, shouldbe allowed up the wall that season, so I guided themto friendly strings and tore up all the others, and shortlyafter went to gather plants in the Alps. On my return I found BoussingauUia had behaved asJacks beanstalkily as ever, so now he has been ejected,and Passiflora coeruUa Constance Elliott may have somepeace and be able to produce her lovely, carved ivoryflowers without a cold poultice of BoussingauUia leavesslapped on to their white faces. Acacia Baileyana was mywildest bid for a startling achievement in acclimatisation,and my most decisive snub from Fate, for next Spring itwas as dead as Queen Anne. So was Plumbago capensis,of which I had hoped a breaking up from the base wouldbe possible, and if the wall were not so crowded by nowI would try, try again with this plant. Mutisia Clematiscame up a shattered invalid next season, but never again,and Manettia bicolor was not much happier, for though itreappeared it was too late to make much show before 144. A June Afternoon frost cut it down again, although in the first season, inspite of being very small when put out, it had floweredwell, and kept on after sharp frosts had killed other third season it was still more unhappy, and hadnt theheart to twine up its string, and now it has gone. Oleariainsignis at the foot of the wall, where the house for shelterduring showers is built out and so screens it from theeast, is growing leaves that look ridiculously large for itsdiminutive stature, but as it is still quite a babe has not yetgiven us one of its Celmisia-like flowers. Myrtus iarentina,with its close-set, deep green leaves, looks happy rightin the corner, and Clematis Armandii has proved a greatsuccess up the pillar of the house, and is now half overthe roof and right across the front of the house. Its tri-foliate leaves are wonderfully handsome, whether the lightgreen, glossy fellows of this year or the duller, deep green,hard-as-leather veterans of la
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