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strings of white and yellow flowers. At a marriage 

 feast the bride walks three times round this im- 

 provised shrine in her bridal dress. 



Flower gardens are generally neglected in these 

 regions, as they require much attention and are sure 

 to suffer during the long dry season ; still Pore does 

 sport one of modest dimensions in front of the 

 bungalow, surrounded on three sides by a hedge of 

 the evergreen-rose, enclosing small beds of pretty 

 flowers ; plenty of Zinnias in half-a-dozen colours, 

 these indeed grow all over the jungle ; a slender 

 pink iris, the fuchsia, geranium, a light blue con- 

 volvulus, as large as a cheese-plate, called the "morn- 

 ing glory " and others, also two magnificent lime trees 

 {Citrus acida), — altogether not much to boast of, if 

 compared with European gardens. There was also a 

 fine grove of plantains, consisting of a great number 

 of young plants luxuriating under the shade of tall 

 trees overlooking a narrow valley, whose slopes are 

 planted with coffee, and at the bottom with cardamoms 

 of bright green, following the winding of a clear rivulet 

 which springs at the upper end from a tiny lake, 

 barely 80 yards in diameter, with a lofty Indian elm- 

 tree {Ulmus integrifolia) in the centre, the tont- 

 ensemhle forming a pretty bit of scenery as seen 

 from above Of plantains there are a great many 



