The "flat-crown" (should be flat-roof) -- half a dozen naked branches full of elbows, slant upward like artificial supports, and fling a roof of delicate foliage out in a horizontal platform as flat as a floor; and you look up through this thin floor as through a green cobweb or veil.

The branches are japanesich.

All about you is a bewildering variety of unfamiliar and beautiful trees; one sort wonderfully dense foliage and very dark green--so dark that you notice it at once, notwithstanding there are so many orange trees.

The "flamboyant"-- not in flower, now, but when in flower lives up to its name, we are told.

Another tree with a lovely upright tassel scattered among its rich greenery, red and glowing as a firecoal.