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unsettled affairs and revolutionary tendencies of the population, 
Here I met Dr. Karl Fiebrig, among whose many attainments is 
that of being well versed in the English language. The Doctor 
is director of the National Garden, a botanical and zodlogical 
institution, situated at Trinidad, where, by the way, our own 
T orong collected many years ago. 
The Botanical Garden consists of a very large tract of land 
which had formerly been the site of a Government Agricultural 
m 
y 
ares chiefly of the South American es offer an interesting. 
tudy to one from the northern hemisphe: Their herbaceous 
a collections, as everywhere in segs ae are kept in slat 
houses, but these are of tion, unlike any I have seen 
elsewhere. Instead of the aniched posts and supports commonly 
used they are built of native woods in the rough. The rustic 
of this scheme adopted to our northern srecnlotise construction 
would seem to me very desirable for houses used for 
similar plants. Another feature that particularly Heer me 
was their collection of cacti. These were planted in the open on 
a high artificial mound, thus affording ample drainage during 
the wet season when these plants oi suffer if the excess 
in touch with the director. Dr. Fiebrig placed at my service a 
young man of an extraction who was well versed in Para- 
guay plants, having assisted in the collection of much of their 
herbarium material that as able to secure a ve re 
te) ry rep’ 
sentative collection of cacti in a short time. I also made several 
