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The flowers and gardens of Madeira (1909)

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a Levada. But the streamof gorgeous colour is not yet complete, as the JSow-gainvillea spectabile, with its brick-red blossoms, isalready giving promise of glories to come in a veryshort time. This plant, which covers the corridorand hangs over an old garden weU- at Quinta SantAndrea, is the finest… … VILLA GARDENS EAST OF FUNCHAL 41 and called forth the admiration of* untold numbersof tourists through successive winters, as they maketheir noisy descent in the basket sledges or runningcars from the mount. In a few weeks the road is turned into a goldenroad. The poinsettias and aloes will have…

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