anil Forest Department a power which rightly used, may add 
greatly to the beauty of the Island, and to the pleasantness of 
travel for rich and poor, %for man, and for beast. What more 
beautiful prospect could be seen anywhere than might be rea- 
lised here, when a shady avenue of stately trees sweeps down 
from the heights to the sea, the many shades of green, dashed 
by the scarlet of the Flamboyant, mingling above, while below 
the golden yellow of the flower of the Campeche and Indian 
Laburnum ; the pink and white of the Bauhinia , the rich red of 
the Pomegranate, the pink Laurel and the white Laurel, the 
flowering Guava, the Bougainvillea , with many other shrubs 
which grow so profusely in our climate, contribute, with here 
and there a cluster of palms near the fountains which have 
been erected by the General Board of Health, to transform the 
bare and cheerless road into a garden path clothed with beauty* 
I wish I could rouse enthusiasm among the proprietors of the 
Island, to co-operate heartily with the Government in this mat- 
ter, and to promote in so easy and effectual a manner to the 
beautifying of their native Isle. The small proprietors (who 
number upwards of f>000 as compared with 250 large estate 
owners), can scarcely be expected to take the initiative in any 
improvement of this description, and for the shake of the uni- 
formity of the plans whieh Mr Horne may adopt, it would in- 
deed be better that they should permit the Government to pro- 
ceed with the planting whenever their district is reached, but 
they at least may do much in the way of protecting the trees 
when once planted. The danger of failure in an enterprise of 
this description lies not so much in the extent and expense of 
the undertaking at the commencement, as in the difficulty of 
keeping the young plants from destruction after they have at- 
tained a certain progress. The lazy may cut them for firewood. 
