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with the regular rows of the tree-like shrub, with their millions 

 of jessamine-like flowers, showers down upon you as you ride 

 up between the plants a perfume of the most delicately deli- 

 cious description. 'Tis worth going to the West Indies to see 

 the sight and inhale the perfume." 



Turnbull, another authority on the subject, tells us that " the 

 fragrance of the gardens of the Tuileries is as inferior to that 

 of the Moorish gardens of the Alcazar, at Seville, as these last 

 with all the care bestowed upon them are excelled by some 

 neglected orange-grove in Cuba or St. Domingo. Nor is the rich 

 fragrance of the orange-grove to be compared for a moment 

 with the aromatic odors of a coffee plantation, when its 

 hundred thousand trees have just thrown out their unrivalled dis- 

 play of jessamine-like flowers, reminding you of what you 

 may have read in Eastern fable of the perfumes of i Araby the 

 blest ! ' " It is also amid the prodigal luxuriance and splen- 

 dors of tropical vegetation that the coffee-plant most loves to 

 linger, loading the atmosphere with its perfumed sweets, as 

 well as regaling the eye with its rare beauty. No wonder that 

 such surpassing scenes of beauty should inspire the poet to such 

 utterance as the following : 



' ' Earth from her lap perennial verdure pours, 

 Ambrosial fruits and amaranthine flowers : 

 Over wild mountains and luxuriant plains, 

 Nature in all her pomp of beauty reigns ! 

 Stern Winter smiles on this auspicious clime ; 

 The fields are florid in eternal prime ; 

 From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, 

 Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; 

 But from the breezy deep the groves inhale 

 The fragrant murmurs of the eastern gale ! " 



The clustered trees of the golden Mocha in their native soil 

 present a strange contrast, however, with the aspect of the land- 

 scape farther northward. "There," states a recent authority, 



