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foliage; the mangosteen with its delicious fruit; the travelers’ 
palm of Madagascar; Avaucaria excelsa from Norfolk island. 
The palmetum contains specimens of 180 species of palms with 
great variety of graceful forms. The water lily tank is wonder- 
fully beautiful with its surroundings of palms, bamboos, and 
grassy slopes, and the placid surface of bright water on which 
float the symmetrical leaves of red, white, and blue lilies, and 
the Victoria regia in the center, queen of the rest. From the 
brightness of the still lily pool we pass to the grateful shade of 
the ferneries with the quick stream dancing over the stones, and 
then on to examine the nutmeg tree, its yellow fruit splitting 
and displaying the “mace,” a network of scarlet covering and 
half concealing the brown nut; the spicy clove and cinnamon 
trees; the climbing vanilla and black pepper; the coffee, cocoa, 
and kola trees; the peculiar flowers of Couroupita and 
Napoleona. 
There is a small hotel in the grounds of the garden, open 
during the winter months, and as the importance of the garden 
has increased, a post and telegraph office and constabulary sta- 
tion have been lately erected. The railway station at Annotto 
bay is only nine or ten miles distant. 
Elevation 580 feet; annual mean temperature 76-82° F.; 
average annual rainfall 113.15 inches. 
BATH GARDEN. 
The Bath garden, forty-four miles east of Kingston, is 
Situated in one of the most tropical districts in the island. In 
other places, ¢. g., in Hanover, it could easily be imagined that 
__ the road led through some English park, until we perhaps notice 
_the sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) trailing amongst the grass, 
_ ©F come upon a gigantic ceiba tree with buttressed trunk and its 
a branches stretching far and wide loaded with a whole garden of 
_ -€Xotic epiphytes. But in the Bath district the luxuriance of the 
Vegetation arrests the attention on all sides. The street of the 
village has an avenue of the Otaheite apple (Eugenia malaccensis) , 
which carpets the road with its purplish-red stamens. Spathodea 
