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also as the Aligator Pear— Is a handsome, 

 well-grown tree of considerable height and 

 growth, but seldom maturing its fruit here. 

 It has been originally brought here from the 

 West Indies, where the fruit matures well. 



Planp Tree (Platanus Occidentali^) — A 

 handsome branching tree, forty feet high, 

 smooth bark, and flowers rough heads or 

 balls, whioh remain hanging on long stalks 

 like a prickly nut, long after the flower 

 is over. One or two fine sper>imens are in the 

 Hamilton Park, and two or thr^e also at 

 Spanish Point, but it is not universally dis- 

 tributed. 



Tree of Heaven (Ailianthus Glandulosus) is 

 a handsome tree, twenty to thirty feet, with 

 deep cut green leaves and whit*' clusters of 

 flowers. The scent of the^e is said to be 

 slightly poisonous, and years ago when this 

 tree had become quite niirneioiis on thf» 

 streets of New York, the city authorities had 

 them all cut down, medical nit-n attribulintr 

 numerous cases of illness to the proximity of 

 these blossoms to bedroom windows. 



Magnolia (M. Grandiflora)— A handsome 

 evergreen tree, twenty to thirty feet, with 

 bright, shining green leaves, and large pow- 

 erfully scented white and pinkish flowers, 

 much resembling a waterlily. There are only 

 a few troes on the island, and it is a pity that 

 so beautiful a tree is not more cultivated 



Mahogany (Swietenia Mahogani)— Only one 

 of these solid-looking, massive-trunked trees 

 is on the island, growing at the Flatts. It is 

 pointed out as a curiosity as is also the fol- 

 lowing tree at Mount Langton, viz: 



Satinwood (Swietenia Chloroxylon) — This 

 and the preceding tree are experimental, 

 and hardly adapted to Bermuda. 



