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interest and beauty. A bay rum tree, West Indian, is one of 
the most elegant individuals of its kind to be seen anywhere, 
two silk-cotton trees, also West Indian, are among the largest to 
be seen outside of their native lands, and a jungle of the Asiatic 
bamboo, giant of the grasses, is a novelty to visitors from the 
North; the bamboo is not uncommonly seen elsewhere in the 
islands; a pair of old gru-gru palms (Acrocomia), West Indian, 
are about as tall as any in Bermuda. The driveway approach 
through a deep rock cutting with vertical walls covered by vines, 
the road planted on each side with flowering shrubs, is a very 
attractive feature. The grounds of Admiralty House at Clarence 
Hill, op ne day a week, are attractive, but contain at present 
little of ee interest, exceptional being a fine tree of Tor- 
rubia, perhaps the only one in Bermuda. Several of ie church- 
yards contain trees and shrubs of interest and beauty. At the 
Devonshire church, an ancient specimen of Bermuda cedar, a 
famous tree, is carefully preserved. 
mong trees commonly planted in both public and private 
gardens, mention may be made of Albizzia Lebbeck, of the Old 
World war here known as ‘‘black ebony,” a widely spreading 
tree with compound leaves, round heads of small flowers and 
large thin on the royal apes of Madagascar, one of the 
most elegant of trees when in bloom, its orange and scarlet 
— flowers followed by ie ng woody pods; the white cedar 
of the t Indies, with digitate leaves and beautiful light pink 
eee pat also West Indian, a tall tree with lustrous thick 
imple leaves; the sword-flower (Erythrina), with leaves com- 
posed of three broad leaflets, the coral-red flowers in clusters; 
pride of India (Melia), one of the most abundant of all; the 
oriental plane; Lonchocarpus violaceus, of the West Indies, with 
racemes of violet-blue flowers; tamarinds, E Indian, some of 
great size and fruiting abundantly; avocado wae sige 
referred to; mangos, Asiatic, which for the most t fruit 
sparingly; mahoe, tropical American, with orbicular ae and 
large yellowish to red flowers, here erroneously called tulip-tree; 
sour sops and sugar apples and the Surinam cherry, all from 
tropical America; and of kinds well known to American visitors, 
