433 A. EH. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 2] 
Along the north road, in many places where it approaches closely 
to the shore and is exposed to violent winds and salt spray, tall 
hedges of Tamarisk, called “Spruce” by the Bermudians, have been 
planted. This shrub grows here to large size. Many of the older 
ones, having been many times broken and bent by the storms, have 
acquired a weather-beaten and picturesque appearance. _ Its delicate, 
heath-like foliage stands the poisonous action of salt-water spray 
very well. In May and June it puts out large clusters of small, 
pink, bell-shaped flowers, much like those of a heath. It is a native 
of southern Europe. 
Figure 12.—Road Cutting near Hamilton. 
In other places can be seen hedges of Century-plants, or Agave, 
of several kinds. Some of these flower freely here in early spring, 
sending up tall branching stalks, sometimes 10 to 15 feet high, 
covered with a profusion of yellow flowers. In many places there are 
hedges of the scarlet-flowered Hibiscus, which is very showy when in 
flower. Hedges of the Pomegranate; Spanish Bayonets ( Yucca) ; 
Cycads; Pepper-bushes; Snuff-bushes; Galba, with its glossy leaves, 
and other unusual hedge-plants form hedges in certain places. 
Trans. Conn. Acap., Vou. XI. 28 APRIL, 1902. 
