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and another at Putten, since destroyed by the digging of a well under part of its 

 roots, which, though but seventy feet high, was forty-six feet in girth. 



Dracaenas, or " dragon-trees," are found growing on the west coast of Africa and 

 in the Cape Colony, in Bourbon and in China ; but it is only in the Canary Islands, 

 in Madeira, and Porto Santo, that they attain such gigantic dimensions as to entitle 

 them to rank among the vegetable wonders of the world. Near Orotava, in Tene- 



