whole comes pitching down in a sheer fall of about 60 feet. 
Under or behind this fall but here slone are the rocks bare. 
Everywhere else, although the sides of the diverging 
mountain sides which wall in the valley are nearly or quite 
vertical, they are so densely and uniformly covered with 
luxuriant tropical vegetation that they are simply hanging 
curtains of swaying, drooping interwoven vines, plants and 
palms among which glow single or clustering flowers of 
incredible size and brilliancy. All this- cliff growth is, 
of course, perfectly wild and spontaneous for the gardeners 
have quite enough to do in caring for the innumerable 
exotics which line the paths and cover the more level areas 
of the garden. There is a pretty little pond with bamboos, 
huge liliacious plants and a profusion of semi-aquatic 
vegetation which was nearly all new to me. I saw to-day, 
for the first time, the bo is immortelle, the wild plantain 
sand a leafless tree of large size simply aflame with large 
flowers of glowing scarlet, A vine which climbed over 
the trees to their very tops bore masses yards in length 
and width of magenta flowers. 
Every moment, almost, my eye would be arrested 
by some flower or leaf of new and brilliant coloring or 
extraordinary shape. Yet I no doubt passed without notice 
hundreds of leaves and flowers quite as interesting and 
strange. It was such a feast of beauty of color, of grace 
