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Updated: May 17, 2025
Dot was not so often with them; her leisure was given more to her flower beds, where all sorts of blooms, bright petunias and verbenas, delicate sweet peas and golden lantanas, scarlet bouvardias and snowy deutzias, fairy, fragrant jessamines, white and crimson and rose-tinted fuchsias with their purple hearts, and pansies, poised on their light stems, in every rich color, like beautiful winged things half alighted in a great fluttering flock, made a glory and a sweetness in the modest patch of ground between the grape-trellised wall of the house-end and the bricks of the bakery, against which grew, appropriately enough, some strings of hop vines.
There are roses in endless variety Jim's mother boasts that she has sixty-five different sorts and some of them are blooming all the year round, so mild is the climate. Phlox, verbenas, bouvardias, pelargoniums, geraniums, grow side by side with such tropical plants as gardenias, tuberoses, hibisci, jacarandas, magnolias.
"They are not in the least like buttercups!" said Norton. "That's what I said," replied Judy coolly; "they have left off their country ways, and don't wear yellow dresses." Matilda thought it was best to take no notice, so with another crumb of sponge cake she turned over to the next flower in the catalogue. "What are Bouvardias? I don't know anything about them." "Of course," said Judy.
But they were in good painting and repair, and most of them had a homely gayety of geraniums or bouvardias in the windows. The house on the corner was the tall house. It occupied a larger yard than its neighbors; and there were lace curtains tied with blue ribbons for the windows in the right hand front room. The door of this house swung back with a crash, and a woman darted out.
The occupants are very proud of the balconies, in particular; and, summer days, these will be a mass of greenery and bright tints. To-day, it was so warm, February day though it was, that some of the potted plants were sunning themselves outside the windows. Tilly could see them if she craned her neck. There were some bouvardias and fuchsias of her mother's among them.
"Not to be expected." "Do you want to take care of your own flowers yourself, Pink?" inquired Norton; "or do you mean to have me do it?" "Why, I will do it, I suppose." "Then you had better leave the Bouvardias to me. They are a little particular about some things." "Are they handsome?" "Wait till you see. Splendid! You'll see, when I get them a going. We'll have just a blaze of them."
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