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the same as our house plant but here 2 feet through at the 
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base and with a wide-spreading top 50 or 60 feet high; a 
* hollyhock 30 to 40 feet high; a feathery, graceful 
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tree allied to the Equisetum s but 30 feet high; a tree Lily 1 
20 feet high with a trunk like a young ash; the sand-box 
tree whose bursting seeds are nearly as dangerous as bombs; 
the breadfuit; a beautiful tree of large size thickly hung 
with fruit and a host of other vegetable growths that I 
cannot now recall. About the fountain were roses, a 
superb prince's feather, balsams (like ours), a. beautiful 
convolvulus, and many other flowering plants, while gardens 
bordering the opposite side of the square were glowing with 
color — lantanas, hibiscus, roses, and hosts of brilliant 
flowers most of which Hubbard recognized at once but whose 
names quickly escaped my memory. 
Late in the afternoon we entered two of the 
largest gardens and after having asked permission to do so 
wandered about the neatly kept and often tiled or paved 
walks and reveled in the feast of brilliant coloring and 
superlatively graceful forms. No wonder those who have 
been in the tropics long to return. No wonder the 
descriptions of the best writers among them fail to give 
even the faintest idea of what this vegetable wonder world 
is like. It must be seen 
