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the North American locust and the ailanthus. Climate and soil 
are well adapted to other fruit trees of warm temperate and 
tropical climes, but the present prevalence of a destructive fruit 
fly and of scale insects aes the production of good fruit; 
otherwise oranges, lemons, peaches, apricots, loquats and others 
could be produced a trees of all these are to be seen 
in plantations. 
any palms are grown for ornament and interest, among them 
the date and the gru-gru, already mentioned; tall royal and 
cabbage palms from the West Indies; the Bourbon palm, African, 
with broad fan-shaped leaves and spiny leaf stalks; rattan palms 
of China, which form dense thickets; the ‘betel-nut (Areca), 
Asiatic; and the native endemic palmetto is widely planted. 
Cactuses are represented by a ae ae of kinds from Mexico and 
the West Indies; the ene ones with large flowers opening 
at night are of two kinds, the Be ant with three- mae 
stems, the other (Selenicereus) ee und fluted stems; both a: 
commonly grown on walls and trees. es species of oriclely 
pears may be seen; there is a splendid specimen of the velvety 
one (Opuntia tomentosa) on a roadside bank near St. Georges. 
The wild native yellow-spined prickly pear grows abundantly 
in rocky places. The cochineal cactus (Nopalea), nearly spine- 
less, is pelea planted, as is the bushy leafy Pereskia, with 
clusters of pink flowers and long axillary spines. The k’s- 
ead cactus is ere planted on posts and walls. ae feast 
three tall fleshy spurges (Euphorbia), natives of Africa, full of 
milky sap, are grown for interest and sometimes erroneously 
The private grounds and gardens of Bermuda contain many 
kinds of plants not to be seen in the public collections. It was 
our privilege to be admitted to several, and many notes were 
ade of unusual species. A number of these were quite strange 
to us and their botanical affinities will be further studied. any 
specimens were collected to illustrate the occurrence or culti- 
vation of particular plants, for preservation at the New York 
Botanical Garden, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia and the Bermuda Agricultural Station. A complete 
