PLANTS 



OF THE 



^ is?s s^ mm mp' Wk m m 



Ok, SOMERS' islands. 



BY 



OSWALD A. READE, 



Fharmaceutical Chemist, London. 



■' Into high cahns of the sunny air 

 The Aloe climhs with her golden flower, 

 While sentinel Yucca and Prickly- iDcar 

 With lance and with bayonet guard her bower, 

 And the Life-leaf creeps by its fibred edge, 

 To hang out gay bells from the jutting ledge." 



— Harper's Magazine^ Ifovcmbcr, 1878. 



BERMUDA: 



Printed at the ''Royal Gazette" Office, Hamilton. 



1883. 



