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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Corner of Garden. 



Doryanthes Datura and native ferns in foreground. Silk oaks 

 and Eucalypti in background. 



six feet long, and the huge Amaryllidaceous Doryanthes. There are 

 clumps of beautiful Azaleas, whole hedges of bamboo, and thickets of 

 two Asiatic raspberries ten feet high. On the terraces near the house 

 are dozens of roses, Fuchsias with two-inch trunks, and tangled masses 

 of deliriously scented heliotrope and Mandevilla, besides dozens of the 

 more usual garden plants of temperate zones. The laboratories are 

 nearly hidden by great clumps of pampas grass. 



Among the flowers of the garden flit many beautiful humming 

 birds, while up from the valleys below float the mellow, plaintive notes 

 of a thrush — the solitaire. The garden at Cinchona, like all the sur- 

 rounding region, is free from snakes and from troublesome insects. 

 The native negro people of the Hills are courteous and obliging, and, 

 of course, speak English. 



The surroundings of Cinchona, beyond the confines of the garden, 

 are equally interesting. Just north of the house a high knob of the spur 

 rises a hundred feet above it. Then, after dropping 200 feet, to a sad- 

 dle ten yards wide, at St. Helen's Gap, the ridge continues northward, 

 growing wider and higher, to the Blue Mountain range itself. South- 

 ward from the house the ridge drops off abruptly, except on the south- 

 east, so that from the terrace one may look off over the Port Royal 

 Mountains to Kingston Harbor and Port Royal, fifteen miles away and 

 nearly a mile below. East and west of Cinchona are the steep-sided 



