568 REVIEWS. [June, 



and five principal hotels are named and localized ; three are in 

 the High Street, one in the Esplanade, and another in Cornet 

 Street. Those who desire a private residence are informed that 

 unfurnished houses, the rents of which vary according to size, 

 situation, and term of hiring, may be had at every price, from 

 ^615 to ^8100 per annum; cottages in the country being obtain- 

 able at from £10 to .£15. When taken furnished, the rent, as 

 a general rule, is about double ; but in both cases the rent is all 

 that is payable, there being no taxes of any kind. Lodgings, 

 whether furnished or unfurnished, may be had in all parts of the 

 town and environs. The prices, of course, vary according to cir- 

 cumstances, but they will be found much below those payable in 

 England, and they are, generally, well furnished, clean, and com- 

 fortable. 



The following extract from the botanical article will show the 

 floral riches of these islands. 



The Channel Islands have long been famed for their floriculture, 

 and this quality is said to have elicited from the late Douglas 

 Jerrold the remark, that " one day or other these islands must 

 be put into pots and sent over to Covent Garden to be sold." 

 The wit of this saying is too refined or too recondite for raising 

 even a smile on the features of persons of but average intelligence, 

 but it will be sufficient to exemply a fact that even the dark say- 

 ings of the ingenious are quoted, even though barely intelligible. 

 The following quotation shows that if the Channel Islands cannot 

 be potted and sent to Covent Garden, they are well worth a visit. 

 As the Arabian prophet said, " If the mountain will not come to 

 Mahomet, Mahomet may or must go to the mountain." 



"The size to whicli the ordinary flowering-shrubs attain in the Island 

 gardens, and their exuberant luxuriance of bloom, are astonishing to those 

 who have been accustomed to the more modest products of an English 

 garden. To see a myrtle covering the side of a house; fuchsias fifteen to 

 twenty feet high, and full of splendid bloom ; magnolias as tall as the 

 loftiest laurels ; hydrangeas of enormous size [frequently producing blue 

 flowers], — these are the common wonders of the Island gardens; but what 

 will the inhabitants of even Devonshire think of the Camellia Jn^onica grow- 

 ing and flowering in the open air all the winter through, with a luxuriance 

 quite equal to anything that can be attained in a greenhouse in England ? 



" Two aloes in bloom {^yave americana) were from twenty-five to 

 twenty-eight feet high, and the leaves are already over eight feet high. 



