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Returning to Havana on March 2g, the next day was given 
to a further search of the bookshops, and to a second visit to the 
botanical garden of the university. It is situated at the foot of 
the hill on which the university buildings stand, and is readily 
reached by trolley cars from the city. On the space of a few 
acres, Prof. M. Gomez de la Maza, the Director of the Garden, 
has brought together a very interesting and valuable collection 
of tropical and subtropical plants. The arrangement of the col- 
lection is mainly according to relationships, and the greater num- 
ber of the plants are labelled with the botanical and Spanish 
names. I learned much from my studies here and was greatly 
interested in the description which Dr. de la Maza gave me of 
his work, which is being carried on without the degree of en- 
couragement and appreciation that it deserves. His facilities for 
teaching are inadequate and he needs help in all ways. The 
work that he is doing is important enough to justify fully the 
granting of what he needs. Professor dela Maza handed me copies 
of some of his published writings for our library, and also a 
manuscript. I arranged with him for an exchange and we con- 
sulted relative to the further botanical exploration of Cuba. 
uban horticulture and agriculture naturally interested me 
greatly. It is evident that the possibilities of the island in these 
arts are immense, when modern scientific methods shall come to 
be applied to them. 
Leaving Havana on March 30 our return was by way of 
Miami, Florida, where we spent the day of April 1 in company 
with Professor P. H. Rolfs, Director of the subtropical labora- 
tory of the United States Department of Agriculture, and had 
the opportunity of looking over his interesting and important 
experimentation with hybrid citrous fruits, and with the intro- 
duction of useful subtropical plants of other countries into the 
southern United States. e made an examination of the native 
flora of the vicinity of Miami, including a visit to the eastern 
edge of the Everglades, and collected herbarium and museum 
specimens of about seventy species, a number of them the same as 
those previously observed about Matanzas, the similarity of the 
flora being evidently explicable by the fact that the soil of both 
regions results from the decay of the coral rock. 
