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very attractive and there are many fine shade trees. Two large 
modern hotels and several smaller ones, with various boarding houses, 
accommodate the numerous visitors who remain in Hamilton. There 
is here a street, Cedar Avenue, with a fine row of the native cedars 
on each side. The grounds at Mt. Langton, the residence of the 
governor, are very beautiful and contain many rare trees and flowers. 
In the immediate vicinity of Hamilton there are many interesting 
places to visit, including numeyous fine private residences and beau- 
tiful gardens and parks. Prospect Hill, the headquarters of the 
military organization of the islands, is not far away to the eastward. 
Spanish Point, Clarence Cove, and Fairy Lands are noted places, a 
short distance northward. 
Figure 4.—The native Palmetto. 
The native Palmetto is still common, both wild and in cultivation, 
but is not nearly so abundant as it was originally, nor so large. This 
tree is peculiar to the Bermudas, though it is very similar to our 
southern Palmetto in appearance, but it bears sweet, edible berries in 
large clusters. (See Part III, ch. 86, and figures 39, 40.) In favor- 
able places, in rich, moist soil it grows forty to fifty feet high, but it 
is more frequently only from ten to fifteen feet. (Figure 4.) It 
seems to grow rather slowly. 
