CHAPTER Y. 



Flora of the Isles of Summer. The FertiUzuig Air. Large Trees from 

 Stone Quarries, and vpon the Tops of Stone Walls.- Trees that icill not Die 

 and cannot be Killed. Trees Within Trees. The Monkey Tamarind, the 

 Wild Fig, and the Ceiba or Silk Cotton Trees. Thompson's Folly. Palm 

 Trees— the Cocoanut, the African, the Cabbage and the Pabfietto. The India 

 Rubber Tree. The Singing Tree. The Tamarind Trees, and Trees Valuable 

 for Timber, for Dyes, for their Spicy Bark, and for Medicinal Purposes. 

 The Natural more Wonderful than the Supernatural, 



"And all the broad leaves over me 

 Clapped their little hands in glee, 



With one continued sound, — 

 A slumbrous sound, a sound that brings 



The feeling of a dream." 



When visiting for the first time tlic isles of unending summer, 

 one cannot fail to be deeply impressed by their new, diversified, 

 and curious forms of vegetable life. It matters not that he is 

 not a close observer of nature, or an educated and trained botan- 

 ist. Perhaps if he were he could not, by reason of his profound 

 technical learning, so well communicate to common minds, the 

 impressions and thoughts which such scenes make and inspire. 

 The learning of some seems to make them useful only to scholars. 



Upon the island of New Providence we trod what was to us a 

 new world, and every climbing vine and flowering shrub, and 

 branching tree ministered to our happiness. AYe seemed to our- 

 selves to be a newly made Adam first introduced to his garden. 



