360 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
Acalypha, Tabernemontana, Mussaenda, Tinnea, Bambusa, Dra- 
caena, Musa, Bignonia, Antigonon, Stephanotis. In the garden, 
adjoining the house, there are orchids, ferns, palms, climbers, 
and ornamental plants generally, with several lawns, and a tank 
for nymphzas and the Victoria regia. Elevation, 400 feet; 
annual mean temperature, 78.7° F.; average rainfall, 48.51 
inches. 
HOPE GARDEN. 
Hope garden is situated in the Liguanea plain between five 
and six miles from Kingston at the base of the hilly country 
through which the road passes for ten miles or so to the Blue 
mountains. The plain of Liguanea is one of the dry districts, 
the average annual rainfall at Hope being only 51.5 inches. 
Vegetation is affected not only by the want of rain, but also by 
the sea breezes, which in their passage across the plain become 
quite dry. The plain is characterized by the presence of 
Cactacez, such as various species of Cereus and Opuntia. The 
trees include Prosopis juliflora (cashaw or the mesquite of the 
mainland), Guiacwm officinale (lignum vite), Parkinsonia aculeata 
(Jerusalem thorn). As we approach Hope, at the base of the 
hills the rainfall increases, from 35 inches in Kingston, and 
Catalpa longissima (the yoke wood tree) , and Pithecolobium Saman 
(the guango) occur, while the Cactacee disappear. 
The character of the flora is affected also by the soil, which 
is alluvial without any admixture of clay. Where limestone rock 
commences on the hill called Long mountain, the prevailing 
feature is the beautiful yellow flowered Agave Morrisit. The soil 
of the plain is very fertile when irrigation can be used, and the 
gardens in fact form part of the old Hope sugar estate. 
From being at first a small nursery and an experimental 
ground for sugar cane, it has now developed into a large gar den 
with six acres of lawns, three and one-half acres of ornamental 
borders, also ferneries and orchid houses; collections of roses 
crotons and palms; plantations covering seven and one-half acr®® 
of sugar cane, Arabian and Liberian coffee, oranges, gi7S°™ 
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