covery he spent some time at his father's former botanical garden 

 which he thus describes: 



At my arrival in Carolina, I found, in this garden, a beautiful collection of trees 

 and plants of the country, which had survived an almost total neglect, for four years. 

 I also found a great number of trees from the old continent, which my father had 

 planted there, some of which gave marks of the most vigorous vegetation. I prin- 

 cipally noticed two Ginkgo biloba, which had been planted only seven years, and 

 had already attained an elevation of thirty feet; several Sterculia plantanifolta, 

 which had yielded seeds for five or six years; finally, more than a hundred and fifty 

 mimosnillibrissin, of which the stem of the first one brought from Europe is ten 

 inches in diameter. I gave several of them away before my return to France ; this 

 tree being already in great request for the magnificence of its flowers. The agricul- 

 tural society of Carolina are now in possession of this garden, which they propose 

 to continue and to cultivate in it those useful vegetables of the old continent, which, 

 from the resemblance of climate, promises a chance of success. 



Unfortunately the garden has not been continued as proposed 

 and to-day little remains to indicate its former interest. 



Laura M. Bragg. 



LOCAL FAUNA 



The Hummingbird in Winter.— It begins to look as if the Ruby- 

 throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris (Linn.), can no long- 

 er be classed as strictly a summer resident of coastal South Caro- 

 Hna. Apparently the bird is of at least occasional occurrence in 

 winter, a specimen taken in December being now in the Charles- 

 ton Museum, while the bird has also been reported in January, 

 February, and early March. Another record, made by me on Dec- 

 ember 18, 1910, constitutes additional evidence. 



This record was made in my garden on Legare Street. At about 

 noon of the day mentioned I saw a hummingbird hovering about 

 a medlar ("Japanese plum") bush. It then flew to a peach tree, 

 where it rested a moment, and then to an elm where again it 

 perched a few seconds on a twig before flying away to a neighbor- 

 ing yard. I could not distinguish the sex with absolute certainty, 

 but I think the bird was a male. 



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