132 THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 
gales of wind which so frequently occur during the winter 
cultivation of the soil. It is also admirably adapted, by 
its resinous, unshrinking, and durable qualities, for building 
vessels of moderate tonnage. 
In the following list, six species of Citrus are mentioned 
as growing in the Bermudas ; a seventh, called the “Grape 
Fruit,’—almost twice the size of an orange—is also found 
there, the specific name of which we are unacquainted with. 
They are all cultivated in gardens, with the exception of the 
Lemon, which grows spontaneously everywhere, adorning the 
roads and hill sides with the abundance of its golden yellow 
fruit, of which thousands of bushels annually fall only to 
rot upon the ground. 
Delicious beyond description is the perfume emitted 
from the expanded blossoms of these fruit-bearing trees, 
and more particularly of a calm evening, after a copious 
fall of rain, when the sun reappearing in subdued brightness 
and splendour, gilds each cedar-crowned hill and white- 
washed cot with its fading beams, the powerful scent of 
‘the citron tribe, mingled with that of the cedar, is exhaled 
in such copious quantity, as forcibly to impress the 
imagination with a realization of those fairy lands of 
ancient fable, where gorgeous palaces, inhabited by rich 
and happy princes, were fanned each live-long day by 
balmy breezes, heavy laden with odorous incense. 
The following brief account of the trees, shrubs, &c., now 
growing on the Islands, emanates, with but few exceptions, 
from the pen of Mr. Hurdis. It is not mtended by any 
means to represent a complete list, but will be found to 
contain the names of those species best known to the 
inhabitants. 
