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flap in the breeze, small boys crack whips or pound bamboos 

 together and shout at the birds, women with big flat baskets 

 seine the unplanted sawahs for fish, and catch them, too. Always 

 the rice fields are interesting to look at and always something 

 interesting is happening on them. 



The Mountain Garden at Tjibodas is reached most conven- 

 iently from the excellent hotel in the little village of Sindanglaja. 

 Here at an altitude of 3,500 feet the climate is always cool, and 

 there are many conveniences not to be found in the sleeping 

 quarters in the garden. A well-made path ascends steeply 

 through the rice fields to the garden, about an hour distant and 

 some 1,500 feet higher. Beyond the sawahs the path crosses the 



Fig. 27. The glass-house and a large grass-tree at Tjibodas, Java. 



smooth lawns of the garden, with some remarkable views of the 

 mountains to the east, and reaches the laboratory building under 

 a row of huge Araucaria trees. 



The one building is a simple but attractive one-story house of 

 wood, containing a laboratory room and four sleeping rooms, 

 three of which are available to visiting botanists. The laboratory 

 room is small and very plainly furnished, with some tables, a 

 couple of cases for apparatus, and a small collection of books. 

 It does not seem to be well fitted for any sort of experimental 



