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GARDENS OF BERMUDA 
The climate of Bermuda permits the luxuriant growth and 
profuse flowering of a great variety of plants from warm temper- 
ate and subtropical lands. In the older gardens, many rare 
specimen trees and shrubs of botanical and horticultural interest 
exist, and in the newer gardens, many other species bee 
established. A visit during three weeks of September, | 
. Britton and Mr. Stewardson Brown, curator of botany in 
te eee of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, in continuation 
of previous Bermudian studies, was mainly occupied in studies 
of garden plants, in codperation with Mr. E. J. Wortley, the 
newly appointed director of agriculture. 
hief and foremost of the floral features of the islands at this 
time of the year is the oleander, native of Asia Minor, for which 
Bermuda is famous in song and story. It is more of a hedge 
lant than actually in gardens and has spread over the hillsides, * 
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strikingly beautiful oon often growing in wild surroundings; 
the flowers of all shades from white to rose and dark red, 
double kinds are common. The Chinese hibiscus rivals t 
oleander, if not in abundance, certainly in floral colors, from 
(which is rare) through pink to crimson, growing in great luxuri- 
ance. Tecomaria, of South Africa, a shrub relative of our 
trumpet-creeper, with pinnate leaves and clusters of scarlet 
flowers, is freely planted as a hedge. he pigeon-berry, a West 
Indian shrub with small leaves and long nodding racemes of 
small bluish flowers, is a graceful and almost universal ornament. 
The ‘‘ queen-of-shrubs,”’ better known to us under the name of 
crape myrtle, native of tropical Asia, is abundant in shrubberies 
Walls are covered by the Japanese honeysuckle, its fragrant 
flowers first white, then yellow. The large periwinkle, white or 
deep pink, and the blue plumbago, from the Cape of Good Hope, 
are abundant and beautiful in borders. 
There are four small public gardens in Bermuda. The park 
at Hamilton is openly planted with trees and surrounded by a 
border of trees and shrubs, including some fine specimens. 
old estate Parla-Ville, also in Hamilton, where the building con- 
taining the collections of the Bermuda Natural History Associ- 
