The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-06-02

IN IN St6Ai
globe, and is worth coming all the way to
Brazil to sea colonnade of natural Cor
inthian columns, whose graceful, bright
green capitals seem to support portion
of the blue dome that arches above. As
one looks down the long vista of columns.
straight, firm and smooth as though
carved in stone, dim vision of some
| Egyptian temple rises to the imagination
one feels as if monarchs had been drawn
up in line to do him homage, OF as if he
! had been translated to another sphere and
this verdant gallery must lead to a man
sion of the gods. The most blase traveller
walks in silence between the towering
ranks, impressed too deeply for words, s.
as at the first view of Niagara, of a snow
topped mountain, OF grand cathedral
and other sights which bring the souls
of impressionabe people to their knees
whatever may be the attitude of their
| bodies
TO come down to figures, there are $50
Oh THESE HoDlc trees tHe ii0t!itU ltHt (OfeS-
doNa regia,) planted thirty feet apart in
double row, enclosing Il wide gravel
path The palms have an average height
OF eighty feet, and an average diameter at
the base Of three feet. Their trunks have
grown as straight as if 10y plum line, and
their lines are as regular as a mathemat-
cal device could make them. High up il
the air their enormous teathery tufts arc
in 4 perpetual tremer, shaken by every
breath of air. As an appropriate setting
to these master pieces of nature, the gar
den is surrounded by the widest OF tropi-
cal scenery.
Between the giant trunks you look up
ward TO incomparaDly blue skies, to near
by mountains, to the sea, whose mulmur
you can family hear \ shorter alley of
palms crosses the main one near its begin
ming, the two forming a gigantic cross.
About midway down the avenue is |
fountain, and here other avenues. scarce
ly less splendid, branch off at right angles, |
lined with old mango trees {Manguevias) |
whose long arms, gnarled trunks and dense |
interlocking foliage would alone distin-
guish this garden above any other But |
pears tame, and one is hardly prepared to |
do justice to what is probably the finest |
collection of tropical flora in the world. |
There are groves of cinnamon and Glove |
trees, acres of tea shrubs from China and |
Japan, myrtle trees and naples, pines and |
camphor trees, cacao, bread fruit, ''vege-
table butter the long crooked fruit of
jaca that looks like the stuffed club of the
theatre, and rare eNotics. from the Jiniest !
parasite to the loftiest monarchs of Anna
zonian forests. Many trees from tropical
Asia and Africa, as we'll as from other
parts of the world, have found d home in
Brazil, through the instrumentalty OF the |
Botanical Garden. TO the left of the roy
al palms there is u fine grove of bamboos.
which is Il faVo1ite resort for picnic pau
ties. There are ponds and pools, grot-
toes, cascades and a hundred winding
paths leading to new surprises. The gar
den lies near the sea- shore directly at the |
base of spur OF the Sierra ia Carioca, and |
forms part Of an experimental farm fla |
zenda normaD and agricultural school 1t |
had its organ in the year 1908, in a small |
private garden established here by the d. |
rector OF a gunpowder factory. About |
ten Years later it was formally attached to |
the royal museum and the burden Of it's |
support transferred to the national treas !
ury. The Institute Flumineuse de Agri-
cultula, horticultural Society under
whose administration it now is was not |
created until 1860, since when the Gov
ton for its maintainence. as well as that |
of the School and Farm
No wonder Brazilians are so proud of
their ''Jardin Botanco," which has hard
hot the days may be in town and the
streets and fevel-breeding cutters and
steam and smell-one may always come |
out here and find quiet, GOODNESS and pure |
air. Beyond the garden, the cars traverse |
pretty suburban hamlet to the foot of |
the Gavea; and beyond their limit a fine |
road zig-zags up the heights to a breezy |
gap called Alto da Boa Nista,'' whence |
some Incompatible views may be obtain
ed. FANNIE b. WARD.
Cheering Words from ii Former Sears !
porter
Mr. George l.. Merrill, formerly of Sears !
port, in writing from Bethel to renew his .
subscription to the journal, has SO pleasant
words for his former associates that we give !
the following extracts:
To receive the journal seems like a week
~ call from my old friends of Belfast Sears |