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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A Street in St. George. 



ONE OF THE ODD OLD-FASHIONED NARROW STREETS, PICTURESQUE DESPITE THEIR CONDITION, WHICH ARE SO 



INTERESTING TO THE SIGHTSEERS IN BERMUDA. 



to the Bermudas in the middle of 

 January is like entering a vast conserva- 

 tory, fragrant with the warm damp 

 smell of fresh watered earth and green 

 growing things. From out of the 

 Maxfield Parrish branches of the native 

 cedar, peep solid little white bungaloes 

 built of coral blocks and of a near 

 Colonial style. Every roof is agleam 

 with white-wash, for the roofs catch 

 rain water, the porous coral permitting 



of no wells. This coral when quarried 

 with an ordinary hand saw and hardened 

 in the air, makes excellent building 

 material. Occasionally a great cut is 

 made in it for a graded carriage road 

 and one stops to pick maidenhair fern 

 growing wild in the crevices on the 

 perpendicular sides of these attractive 

 and novel roads. Small ponds or 

 inlets of the sea, between the islands, 

 shine with the clearest water of an 



