In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . cresting agavesis one of grace and unusual decoration. The gate itself has its characteristic Tuscan over-hanging tiled roof covered with a lush growth ofwistaria, which comes into full blossom at the begin-ning of May but continues to send out sporadicmasses of bloom all through the summer. From thegate roof the graceful vine runs on up the balconyover the childrens play place and from there on upto the roof of the house. By each stone gate-postrises a thin young cypress. The open spaces on the terrace covered with finely-broke
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . cresting agavesis one of grace and unusual decoration. The gate itself has its characteristic Tuscan over-hanging tiled roof covered with a lush growth ofwistaria, which comes into full blossom at the begin-ning of May but continues to send out sporadicmasses of bloom all through the summer. From thegate roof the graceful vine runs on up the balconyover the childrens play place and from there on upto the roof of the house. By each stone gate-postrises a thin young cypress. The open spaces on the terrace covered with finely-broken red stone and soil are kept clean of fallenleaves and fruit byBeppi with fagotbroom and basket. Inthese clear spaces, inlittle intimate groupsor ringed round thecircular beds andranged on the stonesteps of the housedoors, are changingcompanies of pottedplants; blossoming cal-las in April, cinerariasin May, carnations inJune, geraniums inJuly, and chrysanthe-mums in the autumn; while along the coping of theretaining wall that holds the terrace above the lower. In little intimate groupsare changing companies ofpotted plants. 54 Our Garden garden are more of these pots, some of them ofunusual shape, tall and vase-like. This coping andthese pots are very convenient for decoration. Onefesta day we draped all the walls with heavy redhangings and covered the stone steps of the housedoors giving on the terrace also with red, anddropped other hangings from the balconies. Thenwe arranged the many and various pots on and byside of and under all these draperies. It was likea Carpaccio picture. It is on the wall coping and in the dry open placesof the terraces that the spotted green, beady-eyed, long-tailed little wall-lizards play. They playwith each other in jest or love or anger; but theyplay in another way with the little ncspoli beetles,and the flies that alight on the fallen fruit. Thisplay is little fun for the beetles and flies. I havemade our garden, so far in my account of it, e
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