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everywhere. When in full bloom the scent is 

 almost overpowering, and it is said to exert 

 on some people poisonous effects. The 

 blossoms range in colour from fine white to 

 various shades of deep red scarlet. It con- 

 stitutes excellent hedges or wind-brftak^i. 



Brugmansia (B. Suaveolens) is a garden 

 shrub, and with difficulty distinguishable 

 from the Datura (D. Metel) both of them yield- 

 ing very large white trumpet-shaped blos- 

 soms. The former is a West Indian plant, 

 and the latter having wild congeners on the 

 island may or may not be a native. 



Fiddlewood [Citharexylum Quadrangulare] 

 a tall tree twenty to thirty feet high, cylin- 

 drical, branchlets four angled. It is not unlike 

 the beech tree of the North, but for its long 

 bunches of bej ries succeeding a hanging blos- 

 som. Flowers white. It is a valuable timber 

 tree. 



Odabash (Crescentia Cujete). This tree is 

 scattered here and there throughout the 

 islands, but is by no means common. The 

 hardshell of its fruit admits of ornamental 

 carving and handsome cup-like ornaments 

 are made from the shell. A calabash tree at 

 Walsingham is famous as having been plant- 

 ed by Tom Moore, the Irish Poet, when living 

 in Bermuda. 



Bougainvillea (B. Spectabilis)— This is one of 

 the most beautiful creepers in the islands. 

 It was introduced a few years ago. but has 

 thrived to such an extent that scarcely a 

 garden wall is without it. Its beauty consists 

 of the large, scarlet, leafy bracts, growing in 

 triplets, and from which the more delicate 

 flowers rise. It gives an appearance of a 

 mass of sweet pea flowers thrown together. 



Avocada Pear (Persea Gratissima)— known 



