Ge SEPTEMBER 19, 1874.] - 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
367 
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WEST INDIAN FRUITS. | 
|a 
‘ (Continued front p. 232.) 
‘THE most southerly of the Windward Group, and 
the next in importance to Jamaica of the British pos- 
; Sions in the W Trinidad. 
g 
Vincent, Dominica a, &c., and a 
their summits ees stately | 
the plains are | 
continental co 
tempera’ 
am | 
ture wai d equal, Chuinpandl with the sister | 
| low grounds ar 
The pan amin re the island is uncultivated ; the 
art m -o while the more 
sigrid portions i for t part covered with 
tion of r 'and underwood. T 
ense ety 
= 
oO 
fo R contain an imm of use 
Atth na ition Aaaa of 200 specimens 
were exhibited, consisting of Acacia, Cedar, Lignum- 
| vitæ, Mahogany, Moun Cabbage, Cannon-Ball 
tree, &c. The heavy appearance of an endless wood- 
land is only broken here and there b t savannahs, 
—_— basea and Co are cultivated the 
country pres the appearance of forest land, since 
those plants pr protected b shade of t 
trees oe te 
mmortelle, 
other t 
I gular m of flow 
Poui are ofa “brilliant liek: of “the Roble an orange 
S 
cine 
which are equally 
— to lecetation, 43 a nights are oe 
from December to April. There 
e) 
anche dry, and ewet or rainy. The | € 
Season commences with January, and ends with | 
| 
ru 
are the drie t months of p year. 
f the sun is then scorching 5 the Pied becomes 
eck 
ee t 
of the coun ely 
altered in an incredibly short ara" y the vegetation 
and lux In July and | 
show 
pirya OA deai GBaiplet did i 
| 
-19.—DWARFED JAPANESE PINE TREE oe P, + 366). 
ec very fragrant ; ; others, e gm. are 
white, pin’ aga we in 
clusters of hollow-jointed reeds, ne forms, 
immense sheaf, about 50 feet 
o feet in di tains about 
as it were, 
from 6 to 
Too stems, 
lag 
ing assem 
plumes. Sometimes each side of a 
veral miles, their feathery summits ‘unite 
mmense arches. There 
eat 
country districts, 
supplied a very 
island can scarcely boast 
gee presented by th 
of Spain, pre para town, is 
sun ra pr the firmament 
lifted from the surface of the plain, in fean places it 
rall, 
Dec e 
seemed to be folded up as a garmen 
moved to th 
:—“ As the 
uall 
ER 
_o 
na 
pete one living thing. The beauty and roe 
imson-orange flowers of the Immo 
which wen gn fully beanie Fe gavea ngulat 
appearance t o the landscape like fiery meteors shin- 
ing in an xia osphere of variegat 
Under the “T of Spain the island made little 
progress, whole trade babes Euro n being 
confined t agg bags of cocoa and some indigo. 
The introduction of os ineine ids been attributed 
lani 
rst began to know her o e 
in the staple products only such i 
T y variety md fruit and vege- 
und eN 
rei 
3 
ion was felt severely, in conseq 
paucity a abot rers, t My black popiilation being indis- 
posed to labour in the fields, which they arom Soop 
pce continued sack of degradation, iar their places have 
lied from ` 
y 
India an ina. At the present ti time a 
Jamaica or Barbado he gh is era P» 
tenacious, and, with er attention, it is 
r the entire 
rk n 
lines holes are dug from 8 to 12 inc ae dee 
an interval of 2 feet between the hol 
roma is level, larger See are Tett 
the f of carti rar there are many 
iken, and in such cass these spaces are- 
requi gine The HDE re conveyed to the malin in 
bundles on the back: 
of animals, or are pass 
to the bottai of the ‘hill through wooden spouts. The 
lanting of canes nef - require to be renewed 
annually; in such a the utmost number of 
oy on a sugar plantation nb 
The most 
genicral p r 
cultivation to w lat anted 
the and stoles ahs the canes 
gressiv 
core gr R are 
rainy season 
n of good weather 
ds the end of the year, in the fall, as it is called, 
be hen the canes 
set in ; advantage is also t 
as lg mber., W are- 
fully ripe they are cut down close to the stole, and 
being then divi into convenient 
amie à 
F. 
