







garden, he says, “has attracted a lis number of visitors. During 
us months, 896 names have been entered in the visitors! book, or on 
an average of 50 a month. "Those wii come from abroad, and more 
e 7 especially those fri temperate regions, are very much struck with 
_ © growing in it. *- der who was here in pomi said that he had 
ET | | . Willia: 
5 = to be derived from a visit. ^ ve from ngston, t hough A 
* Jong one, is full of interest, first through the Lignes plains, then - 
* up Stony Hill, past Settlers’ groves of cocoa, coffee, and bananas, 
* with a sprinklin g of oranges, sien, sugar cane; anna ito and yams; — — 
down dee the Wag Water Valley with broad alluvial streiebip * 
wi with tobacco, eultivated by Cubans; alorg the windii 


. * A guide-book that took in all the Jamaica gardens in the manner of 
* the above paragraph, would be useful, and would add to the number of 
= ' visitors to all of them. Of the plants i in the garden at Castleton some 
most interesting information is supplied. ‘One of the most superbly ^ 
beautiful of trees,’ says Mr. Fawcett, ‘the Amherstia nobilis, was -— 
in magnificent flower. this year, and was worth cros e 






t 
in which to cultivate it. 
of Madagascar (t procs madagascariensis) is the noblest form of 
essentially tropical family—the banana order (Musaceæ). The 
sec es 1 iain amal — a for thethirsty traveller. i 



1 Sardara , Jan 
