THE CUBA REVIEW 



And Bulletin 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAli 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" (jarde/s, 



A Monthly Magazine, Published at 82-92 Beaver Street, New York 



Subscription : 50 Gents Per Year, 5 Gents Single Gopy. i4 dvertising Rates on Application 



A. L. RULAND, Editor 



F. J. ROHDE, Business Manager 



VoL V 



DECEMBER, 1906 



No. 1 



"My happy land! Thou favored land of God, 

 Where rest his mildest looks, his kindliest smiles ' ' 



Jose Maria Heredia, Cuban Poet. 



CONTENTS 



Cover Illustration, In Santa Clara Province page 



Frontispiece: Beautiful Yumuri Valley ...... lo 



Wanderings in Cuba ......... n 



Cuban Highways Ideal for the Automobile . . . . . i8 



Christmas in Cuba — Mary E. Springer ...... 20 



Cuba in Carnival Costume — Eliza Bunting ..... 22 



Santa Clara Valley 25 



Some Phases of Camaguey ........ 27 



News from Havana ......... 29 



Things Queer and Quaint in Cuba — Mary Elizabeth Springer . . 32 



The President's Message on Cuba ...... 33 



Cuban Securities .......... 34 



How We Visited a Cuban Plantation . . . . . . 35 



Cuba's Agricultural Possibilities — Prof. F. G. Earle ... 40 



lyive Stock in Cuba— Dr. N. S. Mayo 46 



Garden Crops — C. F. Austin 48 



Cuban Fruit and Vegetables ........ 51 



Sugar in November ......... 54 



Bartle, a Thriving Colony 60 



Along the Trocha (Ceballos) 64 



Synopsis of Land Company Reports ...... 78 



Jaragua Plantation .......... 78 



Boston Colony .......... 80 



Behlen Observatory ......... 82 



