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furnished with a library and a large room for work. A dining 

 room and a few bedrooms are provided, for there is no hotel. 

 The garden of forestry, situated about halfway up the old vol- 

 cano of Gedd, is planted chiefly with Australian and Japanese trees 

 and shrubs. Of these, perhaps the most remarkable are the curi- 

 ous specimens of the Australian Xantoroa actinis in front of the 

 mountain pavilion. The forest of Tjibodas, in which the garden 

 is placed, is a remarkable one. Paths have been traced which 

 lead by numerous windings to interesting spots, up to the height 

 of about two thousand metres. Outside of these paths one could 

 not go three steps on account of the impenetrable thickness of the 

 woods. The ground is carpeted with a world of mosses and finely 



Fig. 3. Reception Pavilion for Foreign STrDENTs in the Forest Garden of Tjibodas. 



Java. (From a photoixra])!!.) 



cut ferns, of the most surprising and various forms. In the trees 

 of from one hundred to one hundred and twenty feet high are 

 masses of orchids, ferns, and lianas to make one dream, away up 

 to the topmost branches. The lianas in some places form com- 

 plete stalagmites of verdure, so thickly covered are their supple 

 stems with mosses and broad-leaved parasites. They form an 

 inextricable but transparent network, through which the rays of 

 the sun pass to lighten up the minutest details of these rare beauty 

 spots. 



The vegetation varies constantly as we ascend the slope of the 

 Gedd, and seems to grow more and more interesting. Translated 

 for the Popular Science Monthly from La Nature. 



