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The flowers and gardens of Madeira (1909)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella · London, A. & C. Black · leaf 107

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ng succulent, with a luscious pine-apple flavour. There is a very fine specimen of Bombax, orsilk cotton tree, which has a pecuhar growth,and in June is covered with fluffy white blossoms. At again a lower level on yet another terraceis a httle sunk garden, which spems to providea never-ending… … VILLA GARDENS EAST OF FUNCHAL 49 certainljj pleasanter to walk upon, and in spring,when flowers spring up in every direction, manya little treasure appears between the stones. OneI remember I could never regard as a weed, thoughmany people seemed merely to look upon it assuch, was Anamotheca…

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