222 LUE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 22, 1874, 
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The islands lie generally between 59° and s = 
itude, pr with the exception of 
o° and 23° of north latitude ; ew 
largest are those which extend from the Gulf o of 
eastward, Cuba, i 
irect action of the trade winds 
and th o 
Jamaica again, from its mountainous 
character, and most of the Leeward Islands from 
the majority of the 
ded by botanists 
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t works were tho 
Dina tr bel and Patrick Brown (1751), both 
on the flora of Jam: rmer contains a no 
re of rough arising and still exists and form 
the treasures of the British Museum. 
egions, aa Shey 
Apri » alien CE = forth sedii F Fron 
mmer reigns in all its 
reason also there is ase tog: any 
ic 
In this forcing-house for vegetation Nature 
e ground is over- 
ly or 
prodigal of organic matter. 
with plants, w which have 
sun, are seen ascending on every side, even to the 
ig great is the variety of vegetable 
beauties that sometimes decorate a sa trunk that 
a European garden would be 
vol One account descriptive’ of 
i ce for all. The 
i e wood, we 
ecially beau- 
prettier stats a e of 
eee = is picturesque its 
with a apidity elon ee astonishing. “Tt ioes i in 
e greatest profu ow 
growth ; as with the Potato the root alone is se 
ro the upper part is fostered and cared for 
eeper, so th: e groun 
its a tendrils : 
- r Pears. In these provision gron ounds 
offee, 
P 
se as al 
otca ii the Sugąr 
The vegetation aar displays the vigorous 
our so characteristic of 
0s ower is, one m 
o let, as brilliant and showy as our scarlet 
Pi nium. This tree is s generally planted to pra 
the Cocoa groves, and is therefore called La Madre 
del Cacaoin Spani iss collect the 
dews and moisture in the driest weather, and -protects 
ows in thick Lager ee like a 
azel bush, e Aet larger n the trunk, of 
that of a eee 
great thick pod 8 or 9 inches long, and 
on the sprays, like other fruit, but gr Boh A a “little 
an inch Sy, which springs from the 
rg anches, The 
flower is enc iali, so is almost invisible on the 
side of the T n colour from a 
im 
y Almonds. 
the pods are crushed, 
and finally formed into sticks 
B. 
The nuts after a taken from 
then made into a paste, 
by the negro sci 
(To me continued.) 
PLANT GOSSIP. 
t of the see aa of fo es M 
ON the fron 
— at the Old Cheshunt Nurseries, ca 
in all its free e grand beits te old BIGNONIA 
terminal cluste rs at fine flowers. The wood of | the 
i with the dense growth o 
which many "mt of Hower: 
form an TEE foreground. any passers- 
by stop and apr at this (to them) 1 nar ew floral reve- 
lation, and w ey may, for it is seldom seen in 
these parts, 7 ‘eas in such fine c ondion, as a road- 
side selene 1860 it suffered vevntely at the hands 
of no tenible Tois of that year, and never since then 
has it flowered so grandly as during the present 
mney 
ies ae Sp EA where cut flowers are in 
demand. d be considered complete without a 
plant of ot old East istisna Asclepiad, PERGULARIA 
ODORATISSIMA, not s 
flowers, which are c jew, as for 
rance. Mr. Dunn 
pits at Dalkeith, which is cut down every year, grow: 
away freely nan x Spring, and produces flowers all 
through the 
RA SCOLYMUS, the common inti 
t for ornamental pur 
bears i 
iage and e 
wers en it highly effective Standing on 
a lawn with the contrast of the dark green grass in its 
favour, it ro a much nobler object than when seen 
in arden. 
ne The pte =a gt Dou weet et daa en 
PUMILA has been extensively tried as beddi 
lant at Battersea i a cane and we ene 
mplete failure, growth 
ee aS quite green while they ought to be 
Bennie td 
— Ons a the Seaga garden plants in the 
North of Scotland is the Willow herb, EPILOBIUM 
Wack Weck A ai any yen it = a common 
weed ving the strong sea breezes, readi 
ers, ip Miller 
proper to cut for b basins to adorn 
mer season.” The fas hion in 
or conservatory plant. 
n all ways than pae 
r ere Ne PLANTS have had a 
greater run of vee tree = the Golden Feather 
tie friend must look to kis laurels Revco ey ‘eal 
for instance, is i 
at Battersea, : 
more kiejt plint the than the Pyrethrum for “ribbon | 
ui 
t gro not - 
-$O ornamen 
CUSHION- SHAPED FLOWER BEDS in Be the 
N 
borders, and is wok Sod used tog ly. 
Golden Chi ckweed, a yellow nol E the eee a 
Stellaria gramin: k dele Te is perfectly 
pera makes a doie lw pa and is very soft in 
colou 
See eae ar ae 
— — There is a ne bee of ‘a a MA» 
CROCARPA in ‘the Palm at Kew 
a dozen of its jarge “fruit, resembling A shape, 
and size those of the n Vegetable 
ugh t a: fruit is e dible, it: is inferior to 
that t of ‘the true niles Asar fruit of a a closely. 
allied species, P. quadran 
—— Gardeners who a e up a suppl 
t able p plants, and are not sei with conveni rly 
for growing them, find tho 
PROPINQUA t, wi 
reddish stem, =n cut foliage of a light eat doe 
a very handsom ne MEN ER 
worth looking after. ; 
— For the SUBTROPICAL GARDEN a very pro- 
mising plant is the new Abutilon brasiliensis, whose 
where 
atia freely, and doing v 
— One of the most me of hardy 
plants in the North is 
and threw he the golden tints bes the P : 
striking manner. The soil a Dalkeith is dry and 
warm, an anid Wilh AoE with rotten Mushroom 
bed manure it suits the Iresine Lindeni to perfection. 
he very beautiful plant known i F gard i 
Pita arp mata ne should more corre 
called P. semi-decandrum, D.C, (se e Triana, Monog 
Melastom., in YT; rans, Linn, Soc. xxviii, 41.) 
Exceedingly chaste and viry subjecti 
rning a bright-coloured carpet under tall-gre 
dark-foliaged “plants are 
EOR mi AVE OF 
fine in one or two places in the subtropical garde 
Battersea, pele the latter in aa oyal al Horticu l 
Society’s Garden at South K 
re flowers are in demand Ja 
one is the New 
which Ggs under our notice Dalkei 
day. a half-shrubby piit producing 
prily _purple-spotted flowers at the axils a the 
lea ery freely all the winter. Another plant, 
hicl Mr Dann sls ows liberally for winter 
work, is BEGONIA ot an a fine o 
cannot yet be dispensed wit 
grower, ofen attaining from 12 to 
diameter. For large beds it is one of the most 
priate of the family, 
— PYRUS VARIOLOSA, a rare and distinct 
as 
arei eatable when artially decayed, like “the ring 
same way—a much 
Both are very n at t Palterees Park this 
most admired of t 
