PART v. VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL LIFE. 55 



geous red masses in the landscape half the size of a 

 house ; where roses white and roses pink clamber over 

 everything, and are flowering more or less all the year 

 through. And so with the myrtle, jasmine, fuchsia, 

 honeysuckle. Still more with the flaming scarlet ger- 

 anium, the grand datura, the heliotrope grown to an 

 enormous bush ; and, spreading farther and farther every 

 day are passion-flowers, which cover verandahs with 

 their leaves and blossoms, and drop their large purple 

 fruits every evening. 



In short, Madeira, with its gentle breezes, its avoid- 

 ance of both summer heat and winter cold, its large 



J Twas in the Cadda Velh' he stood 



Till Spain usurped the crown, 

 When Philip for his Armada^wood 



The noble tree cut down. 

 Its beauteous veins, dark-polished, 

 Shone in many a gay saloon ; 

 But a storm arose, 

 And his English foes 

 That Armada finished soon ! 



Of forest trees there's none, there's none 



Can match the mighty Til ; 

 Like rubies that sparkle in the sun, 



His leaves the horizon fill. 

 His girth it is a giant's, 

 And his shade a host might hide ; 

 A forest is he, 

 That single tree, 

 So stately and so wide ! 



f T. M. Hughes, 1845. 



