The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-08

1t Is the middle OF November, warm,
bright, with a cool, fresh breeze; the
time, 8 o'clock in the morning; for we
are not where November is q cold, gray
month, but under the sunny skies of
the equator. On our way to friends
garden we take the long street Dor
dered with tall Royal Palms (Oreodora
regind), wind along the crumbling walls
of an old convent, which are mass of
White Jasmine, Cypress Vine, and
Morning Glories, and soon come into
the great theater square, on the four
sides of which are great Mango trees
oil full of green fruit. A ten minutes
walk brings us to the garden, above the
tall fence of which tower many orange
trees full of fruit and flowers, which
perfume the air delightfully."-. Entering
through tall gate, over which Irvine
great Orange Trumpet Flowers, we see
before us an avenue planted on either
side with oranges, mangoes, and many
other trees, the end of the vista being
a great clump of the beautiful Peach
Palm. We are lost in admiration Mt
the variety and beauty which surrounds
us. Caladiums, with bright white
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the ground; clumps of Ana
Tyllis ftLlgidG are full of snowy
flowers, creepers Irvine over and hang
In luxuriant. festoons from the trees,
and a very pretty parasite with white
fragrant flowers, not unlike those OF
Madeira Vine, is very common, so much
so as to be an evil, as it rs death to the
branch upon which it establishes itself.
On one side is an arbor some 100 feet
long, covered with creepers among
which Passion Flowers of many hues
predominant, and on the posts and
rafters of which are growing many COM
mon Orchids such as Stanhopeas, On
cidiums, Gorgoras and Epidendrums
On some of the trees near by are inn
mense Tillandsias, some larger round
than bushel basket, from which hang
great spikes of flowers with rosy or
scarlet bracts. Meyenia erecta is
large bush covered with purple, yellow
throated flowers and Cape Jasmines
that are large enough to sit under. ALA
mandas are heavy with trusses of golden
bloom, and the beautiful Thunbergia
lancifolia covering a great wall is
sheet of great lavender blue flowers.
Guavas of several kinds were in full
bloom and fruit; Sapodillas Lucuma)
were covered with a delicious fruit
in size and in color somewhat re-
embling Russell apples. Alta, Jaca,
and Beseba, all species of Custard
apple, bore both fruit and flowers.
But what greatly interested us was
the variety of oranges. The trees were
heavy with fruit; the navel orange of
Bahia, so called, from the protuberance
at the apex, and which has no seeds; it
is very large and the most delicious of
oranges. The Mandarin, the skin of
which separates so readily from the
pulp; the Red Tungerine, many varie-
ties of the common sweet orange which
differ greatly IN size and flavor, and the
pretty little orange of Cameta, as large
as good-sized plum, growing in such
clusters as to make the tree show more
fruit than leaves, and of delicious sweet
ness. There were also the large sweet
kind and many small, sour kinds, with
lemons and shaddocks.
Tho breadfruit trees are always con-
spicuous from their large, deep-cut
foliage, and the two varieties, that of
which the fruit has seeds and that with
out, bear great fruits nearly as large as
a child's head. There were many
bushes bearing fruit which we did not
know-eight-sided, fiattish, bright red
or black, and used for preserves the
seed came from Bahia. The, flower is
white, somewhat resembling a Myrtle;
at first we thought it an Euqenia, but
it is evidently not of the Myrtle family.
OF Palms there were many; the grace
full AISLE; the Maracaja, with its tall
crown of foliage the cocoanut, with
great clusters of fruit; and the huge fan,
leafcd Miriti. Pineapples grow in
great masses, and the space reserved
for future home was luxuriant sweet
potato patch. Indeed, to tell all We
saw would exceed our limits. The
pleasant thought was that all this lux
uriance goes on from month TO month,
fears no winters chill, and with the
lapse of years increases in beauty, and
this in a climate probably as healthy
as any in the world We returned to
our house laden with specimens of
fruits and flowers, and as we write our
room is a horticultural exhibition in
miniature. We should add that the
owner of the garden told us that five
years ago there was not tree on the
place Floral World.