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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Teneriffe Gardens. 
Many of tlie private gardens in Teneriffe are nearly as inter- 
esting as the Botanic Garden. The beautiful garden of the 
Marquesa de la Quinta at Villa Orotava, arranged in terraces, 
contains many fine Canary Laurels, the beautiful Lotus 
Bertlielotil, and numerous climbing plants and Roses, which 
festoon the walls and arbours. One large tree of the native 
Laurel is surrounded by six stout stems that have grown up 
from suckers near the base. The same singular habit of growth 
was observed in this species elsewhere. The garden of the 
Marquesa de Sauzel, also at the Villa, is not so well kept now as 
formerly. It is, however, of great historical interest, as con- 
taining the spot where once stood the great Dragon tree of 
Orotava. There is a very old engraving of this garden in the 
Kew Museum II., showing the Dragon tree and its surround- 
ings, including also a fine specimen of the Canary Date, which 
still stands there. Close by is a venerable and majestic Chest- 
nut tree {Castanea vesca) in the garden of the Marques de la 
Candia. In the Machado Garden, although in the middle of the 
town, there were growing Coffee trees bearing good crops of 
fruit, Camphor, Cinnamon, Alligator Pear, Bamboos, Rose- 
apple, Myrtles, Pandanus utilis, a fine Wistaria, double white 
Daisies, Alpinia nutans, Magnolia grandiflora (with a stem 3 feet 
in diameter), M, imr'purea, yellow Cluster Roses, and Royal 
Palm. 
The large-leaved Wigandia {Wigandia macrophylla) from 
South America is one of the finest plants in Canary Gardens. 
In sheltered situations it attains a large size. One plant below 
the Grand Hotel at Orotava was an immense bush, 22 feet high 
and 40 feet through. This was covered with masses of lilac- 
blue fiowers. Another plant, somewhat similar in habit, but 
belonging to quite another family, is Ferdinanda eminens, now 
called Fodacliccniuni ixiniculatavi. This plant is one of the 
Composite^, and forms large bushes 15 feet high, covered 
with white flowers, very similar in appearance to the Ox-eye 
Daisy of our meadows. Solandra grand I'-flora, an extensive 
climber from the mountains of Jamaica, is grown on walls and 
arbours. The large tubular flower of tliis plant, of a greenish- 
yellow colour, is 9 to 10 inches long, it is flowered regularly 
at Kew und(!r the roof of House No. 5. 
