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A FLYING TRIP TO JAMAICA 
might be made to pay. The soil, as already remarked, is in this part of 
the island, poor, but royal palms, cocoanuts, ceiba trees, indeed all of 
the ordinary growths of the tropics were in evidence. In addition to 
this, a few miles took one up in the mountains to almost any climate 
that one could choose, a valuable adjunct to a tropical plantation oper- 
ated by a white man. 
About six miles from Kingston are the Hope Gardens which are 
both for botanical specimens and great nurseries. Here are two hun- 
CASTILI.OA ELASTIC A IN HOPE GARDENS. (TREE 3 YEARS 
AND 6 MONTHS OLD). 
dred and twelve acres, the elevation being six hundred to seven hundred 
feet. The annual rainfall is 54.21 inches and the average temperature 
77.2 0 F. Of the rubber trees that are growing in these gardens only 
the Hevca and the Castilloa are conspicuous. The former does not 
seem to be well at all. as it is spindling in its growth and far from 
vigorous. This is undoubtedly due to the comparative dryness of the 
atmosphere. The Castilloa, however, showed a fine growth, due no 
doubt to the fact that it was irrigated. If its vigorous growth means 
