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might be made to pay. The soil, as already remarked, is in this part of 

 the island, poor, but royal palms, cocoanuts, ceiba trees, indeed all of 

 the ordinary growths of the tropics were in evidence. In addition to 

 this, a few miles took one up in the mountains to almost any climate 

 that one could choose, a valuable adjunct to a tropical plantation oper- 

 ated by a white man. 



About six miles from Kingston are the Hope Gardens which are 

 both for botanical specimens and great nurseries. Here are two hun- 



CASTILLOA EL'ASTICA IN HOPE GARDENS. (TREE 3 YEARS 

 AND 6 MONTHS OLD). 



dred and twelve acres, the elevation being six hundred to seven hundred 

 feet. The annual rainfall is 54.21 inches and the average temperature 

 77.2 F. Of the rubber trees that are growing in these gardens only 

 the Hevea and the Castillo a are conspicuous. The former does not 

 seem to be well at all, as it is spindling in its growth and far from 

 vigorous. This is undoubtedly due to the comparative dryness of the 

 atmosphere. The Castilloa, however, showed a fine growth, due no 

 doubt to the fact that it was irrigated. If its vigorous growth means 



