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cult fruit to eat, but it is, nevertheless, consumed in large quanti¬ 
ties by man and beast. After several trials, we learned to like 
the sapadillo or naseberry, a fruit that has been variously described 
as sweetened brown paper, and an over-ripe pear. 
A month passed, and we returned to the plains that we might 
spend a week in sight-seeing on the island. This included a drive 
to Castleton Gardens, one of the most beautiful botanical gardens 
in the world, where we stood beneath a banyan tree, and drank 
from the traveler’s palm. As we steamed out of the lovely 
harbor on the eighteenth of August, we felt that our summer had 
been well spent; we had seen with our own eyes the wonderful 
vegetation of the tropics, and had learned not a little of life in a 
foreign land. And not the least of the pleasant recollections of 
our visit to Jamaica was of the cordiality of its people. 
NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF NORTHEASTERN 
IOWA. 
By Professor L. H. Pammel. 
Iowa is remarkable for its uniform topography over much of 
the state. The several different ice invasions have left their 
impress on the flora of the state. This is true in a remarkable 
degree of the plants found in the Wisconsin drift with its marshes 
and kettle holes. There is, however, a section in northeastern 
Iowa which was not affected by the drift. The surface of Alla¬ 
makee County consists of gorges and ravines, rounded hills and 
ridges, once largely covered with timber or else open high prairies. 
Very little of the original prairie remains, as this is one of the 
oldest settled portions of Iowa. The deciduous trees are such as 
are common farther north and east. The Populus grandidentata 
is common on the low slopes of the hills, frequently forming 
trunks sixty feet high, while on the upper slopes of the ridge the 
P. tremuloides, the P. Pennsylvania a and the P. Virgianiana form 
thickets everywhere on the ridges and slopes. The Juniper us 
Virginiana is common on the limestone rocks. The following 
oaks are common: Quercus macro car pa, Q. rubra, Q. alba and Q. 
