THE PLANTS AND GARDENS OF THE CANARY ISLANDS. 
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most perfect peace and happiness, and got strength every day 
with my kind friends." 
The following plants from Canary gardens are represented 
in Miss North's pictures in the North Gallery at Kew. They are 
twenty-nine in all (Nos. 502-628) : — 
Pomegranate (Punica Uranatum) ; Spiny Cactus (Opuntia 
Dillenii) ; Canary Campanula {Canarina campanulata) ; Blue 
lochroma (lochroma violacea) ; Dragon tree (Draccena Draco) ; 
Common or Barbadoes Aloe (Aloe vera) ; Tunera (Euphorbia 
canariensis) ; House-leek (Sempervivum holochrysum) ; Ame- 
rican Aloe (Agave america^ia) ; group of succulent plants be- 
longing to the genera Kleinia, Aloe, Euphorbia, Opuntia, &c. ; 
Date-palm (Phcenix dactylifera) ; Canary Date-palm (P. canari- 
ensis) ; Abyssinian Plantain (Mnsa Ensete) ; Pride of Teneriffe 
(Echium simplex) ; Canary Arum (Dracunculus canariensis) ; 
Wild Cineraria (Cineraria cruenta) ; Orange flowers and fruits 
(Citrus aurantkim); Cherokee Rose (Bosa IcEvigata); Cochineal 
Cactus (Nopalea coccinellifera) ; Basket Reed (Arundo Donax) ; 
Tree Heath (Erica arhorea) ; Canary Pine or Tea (Pinus 
canariensis) ; Aloe and Cochineal Cactus in flower (Aloe vera 
and Opuntia coccinellifera). 
In spite of the heat and arid nature of the locality, there 
are several very pretty gardens in the suburbs of Santa Cruz. 
Don Pedro de Foronda y Mandillo was good enough to show 
me a garden belonging to a relative that contained the largest 
number of purely tropical plants seen anywhere in the islands. 
There were Mango trees, Cocoa-nut Palms, Alligator Pears, 
Cherimoyer, Mammee-apple, Mammee-sapote, Tamarind, Clove, 
Guava, Camphor, Papaw, Coffee, Mahoe, Sarsaparilla, Oil-palm, 
Cassava, Bananas, Jack-fruit, Baobab, Rose-apple, Star-apple, 
Bamboos, Calabash trees. West India Cedar, and the Arrowroot 
plant. 
In Mrs. Douglas's garden at Salamanca was a very large 
Argan tree (Argania Sideroxylon) of Morocco. The seeds yield 
a valuable oil. There were also Coffee bushes in bearing, and 
latterly Mrs. Douglas has introduced a Tea plant from Kew. 
In the Public Garden at Santa Cruz the plants cultivated 
were evidently there for shade and not for ornament. There 
were several very fine trees of Ficus nitida, with small, glossy, 
evergreen leaves, affording protection against the strongest sun. 
