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remark applies to Strawberries. Cherries and Chestnuts have not yet been introduced, 
though the cKmate would probably suit the latter. Raspberries had only found their way 
thither a few years previous to the Author's visit, and nothing decisive about their success 
had been ascertained at that time. 
It cannot be expected that a people paying so little attention to the cultivation of the 
most useful plants, should devote a great deal of care upon purely ornamental ones. Though 
it cannot be denied that they have a certain taste for flowers, yet it is very much inferior to 
that displayed, for instance, by some of the Indians in the more southern parts of Mexico. - 
The courtyai-ds of the houses (built in the Moorish style) are planted with trees of Oranges, 
Chirimoyas, Cypress, and Pomegranates ; the corridors are filled with Roses, Stocks, Gera- 
niums, Agapathes, Chinese Chrysanthemums, and Balsams. Further the Mexicans of this 
part of the Republic have not yet advanced. Several foreigners, especially English and Ger- 
mans, have gardens chiefly devoted to the cultivation of flowers, but also to European fruit 
and vegetables, and deserving of notice, as they have become the means by which many of 
the exotic flowers, shrubs, and trees, and foreign fruits and vegetables now to be met with, 
have been introduced,— the means also by which, at a future period, the aspect of the country 
will lose its exclusively native character.* 
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* Dr. L. Kegel, a German physician, at the time of my visit residing at Durango, deserves particular 
meatiou as having heen instrumental in introducing both useful and ornamental plants into the State of 
Durango, thereby conferring the greatest benefit upon the land of his adoption. 
