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susceptible of cultivation in our Southern States, such as Avach 
hypogaea, Camellia theifera, Chrysobalanus Icaco, Ananas sativa, 
and species of Citrus, Anona, Musa, Eucalyptus, Opuntia, Agav 
&c. 
Jamaica, the largest and most important of the British Islan 
in the West Indies, has been especially favored by nature ; hig 
mountains, rising in several places to an altitude of nearly 8,000 
feet, diversify its surface and materially affect the temperature | 
and rain-fall of its different parts; many rivers spring from the 
foot-hills and water fertile lowlands. The climate and soil vary | 
so much as to permit the culture of most plants from the north- 
ern temperate regions as well as those from the topics ; thus, d 
while the cinchona tree and coca are cultivated in the mountain 
the coffee in the foot-hills and the cocoa on the coast lands, speci 
attention is also being turned to the raising of garden veget 
bles with a view to supply the markets of the United States du 
ing the winter and spring. 
The great staple of the island is still sugar-cane ; coffee perha 
ranks next inimportance. Cotton and maize are also generall 
cultivated. The most conspicuous and useful native trees ar 
Swietenia Mahagoni (mahogany), Brosimum alicastrum (brea 
nut), Eriodendron anfractuosum (silk-cotton tree), Dipholis mom 
tana (mountain bully tree), D. nigra (black bully tree), Sapott 
Sideroxylon (naseberry bullet tree), Sloanea Jamaicencts (green 
heart), Amyris balsamifera (rosewood), Vitex umbrosa (fiddle 
wood), Laplacea Hematoxylon (iron wood). Of the species # 
cinchona under cultivation, C. Ledgeriana, Moens. is the most 
promising from the vigor of its growth and the large percentage 
of quinine in its bark. The Liberian coffee (Coffea Liberica) 8 
also looked upon with growing favor. V. HAVARD. 
Late Persisting Leaves on Trees. J. G. Jack. (Gard and F 
iv. 567, 578). 3 
Notes inregard to this subject are given for Magnolia glaue 
Quercus alba, Q. coccinea, Q. tinctoria, QO. rubra, Ulmus campe 
tris, Juglans sp., Hicoria sp., Fagus sp. 
Lepachys columnaris. (Meehan’s Month, i. 65, 66, Pl. 5). 
Les Plantes Européennes introduites dans la Vallée du Minneso 
Conway MacMillan. (Rev. Gen. de Bot. iii. 289). 
