82 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
the gardens of the Riviera. The most noted of these are 
the Borges garden and the garden of Sr. José do Canto, 
in Ponta Delgada, and the large park maintained by the 
last named gentleman at the lake near the Furnas, or hot 
baths. In these gardens are to be seen well-grown trees 
and shrubs from temperate America and Europe, Mexican 
oaks and agaves, Australian Eucalyptus trees, Indian spe- 
cies of Ficus, myrtles and Proteas from the Cape, giant 
bamboos, and numerous South American plants.* 
So large a variety of plants capable of living through 
the winter being cultivated, it is not surprising that the 
quintas and adjacent waysides should be more or less 
stocked with escaped species, some of which, like the 
Madeira Vine ( Boussingaultia baselloides), Passion Flower 
(Passiflora coerulea), and Climbing Fuchsia (Fuchsia ma- 
crostemma), scarcely do more than take complete posses- 
sion of walls over some part of which they were probably 
at first planted; others, like several species of Mesembri- 
anthemum on the bluffs below the fort at Angra and along 
the sides of tlie drive to the Furnas, and a species of 
Protea shown me on his country estate by Sr. do Canto, 
merely spread in the vicinity of the original spot where 
they were cultivated; while others, like Hedychium Gard- 
nerianum, Hrigeron mucronatus, perhaps Trachelium 
coeruleum,t etc., having established themselves, are 
gradually extending their territory. Owing to the close 
utilization of the land, trees and shrubs, which are much 
needed for the firewood that they furnish, have been planted 
to such an extent in all available nooks and corners, 
whence they spread to a greater or less extent, that to-day, 
with few exceptions, it is almost impossible, on encounter- 
* An interesting article on “ the gardens and orange-grounds of 
St. Michael’s in the Azores — its climate and peculiarities ’’ was pub- 
lished by P. Wallace, in 1852. 
+ Of this species I was shown in Flores a cultivated specimen said 
to have been transplanted from the high interior of the island; but all 
wild specimens seen by me were in situations suggesting introduction. 
