180 



places where the mean temperature is above 19 

 degrees. 



The vicinity of the sea renders the climate of 

 Laguna more temperate in winter, than it would 

 otherwise be on account of it's elevation above 

 the level of the ocean. I w&s even astonished to 

 learn, that Mr. Broussonet had planted in the 

 midst of this town, in the garden of the Marquis 

 de Nava, the bread-fruit tree (artocarpus incisa), 

 and cinnamon tree (laurus cinnamomum). These 

 valuable productions of the South Sea and the 

 East Indies are naturalized there as well as at 

 Orotava. Does not this attempt prove, that the 

 bread-fruit might flourish in Calabria, Sicily, and 

 Grenada ? The culture of the coffee tree has 

 not equally succeeded at Laguna, though it's 

 fruit ripens at Teguesta, as well as between the 

 port of Orotava and the village of St. Juan de la 

 Rambla. It is probable, that some local circum- 

 stances, perhaps the nature of the soil, and the 

 winds that prevail in the flowering season, are 

 the cause of this phenomenon. In other regions, 

 in the neighbourhood of Naples for instance, 

 the coffee-tree produces abundantly, though the 

 mean temperature scarcely rises above 18 cen- 

 tigrade degrees. 



No person has ascertained, in the island of 

 Teneriffe, the lowest height at which snow falls 

 every year. This fact, easy of execution by ba- 

 rometrical measurements, has hitherto been ge- 



