THE BOTANIC GARDEN, 
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side of the town has recently been opened near 
the palace, of which the photograph I send gives 
only the faintest idea. The foreground has been 
cleared by the felling of a wide strip of great 
trees, and in their place is now a smooth lawn, 
studded with plots of many varieties of flourish- 
ing roses, from which the eye lifts itself to the 
towering heights of the Salak mountain, whose 
distant, bare, burnt sides are in strong contrast 
to the verdure close at hand. 
A long wide avenue of kanarie- trees, which 
interlace high overhead in a superb leafy canopy, 
traverses the garden ; and by the stream, another 
of great banyan-trees forms a tunnel-like corridor. 
On the left of the central walk are two others less 
striking, but more remarkable. One is of Brazil- 
ian palms, whose globular base and .smooth-ringed 
stems, straight and symmetrical, as if turned 
in a lathe, contrast strongly in their whiteness 
with the deep green of the leaf-sheaths and crown 
of foliage ; the other of bamboos, of various species 
and most luxuriant growth, A slight breeze 
generally rises about 10 a.m., and in the deep 
shade of these avenues one can walk or drive at 
noon in comfort. We never miss a daily visit to 
a seat under an umbrageous India-rubber tree, in 
front of which a fountain plays into a circular 
