I mentioned some weeks back the new red rose I had obtained for the bed next to the smaller pond on the balcony. There had been two blossoms on it when I put it in, but one had collapsed on the way to Colombo.

But the other blossom looked splendid, and before I went away last month there were several buds emerging, and by the time I got back, at the end of the month, it was full of deep rich red blossoms. I show first a view of several of them, and then one of the brightest of the blossoms, with a speckled rose behind. Sadly below the flower you see one of the fish which had died in the tank on the balcony.

And the old beds too continued to put forth flowers in profusion, or rather the two pink rose plants. I show here a view from above, and then a host of the blossoms.