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thermometer seldom rises above 8o°. 

 The railroad is being pushed into the 

 interior by an American syndicate 

 who bought out the Government 

 interest of the few miles then in ex- 

 istence, opening upthousands of acres 

 of abandoned and virgin land. 



The Colonial government gives 

 careful attention and liberal support 

 to the public parks and gardens. 

 There are seven of these in and near 

 Kingston, all of which are delight- 

 fully interesting. 



The Botanic Garden, Castleton, is 

 in the parish of St. Mary, on the 

 Junction Road connecting Kingston 

 with Annotto Bay, 19 miles from 

 Kingston and 10 miles from Annotto 

 Bay. This garden contains a large 

 collection of native and foreign 

 tropical plants. The chief features 

 are the palmetum and a collection 

 of economic, spice and fruit trees. 



The Hill Garden and Government 

 Cinchona Plantation is in the Parish 

 of St. Andrew, on the slopes of the 

 Blue mountains, about 21 miles from 

 Kingston, by way of Gordon Town. 

 These plantations consist of 143 



acres under cinchona, with smaller 

 areas, amounting in all to about 7 

 acres, under tea, and nurseries 

 timber and shade trees. 



The Hope Garden, of about 2 

 acres, is near the foot of tin- hills in 

 Liguanea Plains, five miles from 

 Kingston. It is the chief botanic 

 garden of the island. Until latel) 

 only about 13 acres were cleared, 

 and of these 7 acres were planted 

 with teak, the remaining being 

 under cultivation with varieties ol 

 sugar cane, nutmeg, cocoa, etc. 



The ground has been, to a great 1 

 tent, cleared of bush and trees. I lu- 

 inner portion is being laid out as a 

 Geographical Botanic Garden, but it 

 will be some years before much ad- 

 vance can be perceived. Carri; 

 drives of a total length of more than 

 two miles have been laid out in this 

 portion of the garden. There are 

 large nurseries containing about 40,- 

 000 plants, such as cocoa, rubber 

 plants, nutmeg, clove, black pepper, 

 mango, vanilla, cardamon, sarsapar- 

 illa, cinnamon, Liberian coffee, etc. 



Kingston Parade Garden is the 



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