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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Januabt 7, 1909. 



after he once has established a new 

 standard for his book. Last year's Dreer 

 catalogue was enlarged at nearly double 

 the usual cost to celebrate the seventieth 

 anniversary of the house ; this year's book 

 goes the 1908 book sixteen pages better 

 and there is no change in any feature, 

 save the improvement of the color plates. 

 A departure is the incorporation of a 

 large number of cultural notes, for which 

 there is a special index on the first page 

 of the catalogue. Such writers as Will- 

 iam Falconer, George W. Oliver, W. C. 

 Egan, Prof. Bailey and Eben E. Rex- 

 ford contribute the cultural matter. 



TENERIFFE. 



Gem of the Atlantic 



Nature's hand has given a rather odd 

 appearance to the island of Teneriffe. 

 For all the world, it bears a great resem- 

 blance to an enormous shoulder of mut- 

 ton, the broader part of which faces the 

 southwest, and the thinner part points to 

 the northeast. The island is thirty-one 

 miles wide and fifty-two miles long. Its 

 geographical location is 28° 30" north 

 latitude, 15° 9" west of Greenwich. In 

 olden times it was believed that Paradise 

 had been located in this island, but there 

 are so many contradictions on the sub- 

 ject that I leave this important question 

 to be discussed by better authorities than 

 myself. 



The majestic Peak of Teneriffe is 

 just on the broadest part of the island 

 and seems to emerge from the sea as a 

 huge pointed beam supporting the sky. 

 The great peak, 12,000 feet high, is an 

 incomparable sight. Covered with snow 

 at the top during the summer months, its 

 brownish silhouette, thrust on a clear blue 

 background, impresses the beholder with 

 the awful greatness of this stalwart sen- 

 tinel in the middle of the deep, deep sea. 

 It is a grand sight from Puerto Cruz, 

 where the temperature is not above that 

 of Florida spring months. 



The mountain is a volcano still in ac- 

 tivity, although, fortunately for us, it 

 only throws out sulphurous vapors. How- 

 ever, from time to time we feel the com- 

 motions of our old father Christmas in the 

 shape of slight seismic movements, just 

 as a gentle reminder that he is there 

 presiding over the destinies of the island. 

 We may boast of the fact that the great 

 Cardinal Eichelieu summoned a confer- 

 ence to induce European powers to rec- 

 ognize the Peak of Teneriffe as the 

 common meridian. 



A long stretch of the northern part 

 of the island obtains a never exhausted 

 supply of good water from the huge 

 basin of the Canadas at the foot of the 

 peak, and from the melting snow of the 

 mountain. No water is wasted here, and 

 all there is available is collected and 

 brought down to the lowlands by means 

 of open channels running along the top 

 of stone walls, and by means of dams 

 expressly built to enclose the waters rush- 

 ing down in the rainy season through the 

 ravines and gorges of the secondary ridge 

 of mountains. 



The Dragon Tree. 



The famous dragon tree is Dracaena 

 drago. This plant is a native of the 

 Canary Islands, and a remarkable peculiar- 

 ity about it is, that the dead branches 

 serve as a support for the tufts or 

 crowns, the roots of which encircle and 

 conceal the original stem. These stems 

 gradually rot away inside. The roots 



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