134 
GUATEMALA. 
afternoon, he met a gentleman walking alone in the 
public garden near the Plaza. He asked the oft-repeated 
question in Spanish, when, to his surprise, the person 
asked him if he spoke English. This proved to be the 
Jefe, Don J. M. Galero; and when told who we were 
and what we wanted, asked us to come to the Jefaturia 
in the evening. As Senor Galero was high in favor with 
the Government and beloved by his people, our very 
agreeable visit was interrupted by a serenade to his Ex¬ 
cellency ; and after he had promised to send us his own 
mules that very night for our journey to Totonicapan, 
we took our leave. 
The public garden especially interested me, since all 
the flowers (except an orange-tree) were such as I might 
find at home; 1 but times and seasons were sadly mixed. 
Pinks and gladioli, sunflower and white lily, all blos¬ 
somed together. The fountain was painted blue and 
white, — the national colors, — and sadly disfigured the 
garden, which otherwise was not laid out with any 
taste. 
Our apartment in this only hotel in Solola was com¬ 
pletely fire-proof ; walls, roof, and floor were brick or tile, 
and several of the floor-tiles were deeply impressed with 
dog-tracks (made, of course, before the kiln), — much re¬ 
sembling the fossil footprints in the red sandstone of the 
1 Sweet peas and geraniums in abundance, carnations, marigolds, campa¬ 
nula, yarrow, pinks, sweet-williams, chrysanthemums, iris, scabious, abutilon, 
P 0 PPy, princess’-feathers, fuchsia, linaria, Lilium candidum, peach, evening- 
primrose, gilliflowers, amaryllis, gladioli, alyssum, larkspur, brugmansia, 
mignonette, sunflower, adenanthera, willow, balsams, dahlia, spoider-lily, 
canna, hollyhock, eucalyptus, ragged-lady, roses (4), yellow sweet-clover, as¬ 
paragus, Hydrangea hortensis , blue African lily, lupine, Boston-pink, wool- 
pink, cypress, sedum, agave, chelidonium, euphorbia (long-leaved), and 
broom. 
