The Progress., 1895-01-19
FARM AND GARDEN.
H.. =: ~. ayanirp. riding through 9

d;spelled if placed near rival park
Of such great value is the cinnamon (
shrub that wears ago those who injured
# in Cevlon were put to death. But
that which once was a jungle OF clnna'
mon is now a park Of gentlemen resi-
dences. The long, white awel1'hg
houses are bounded with TINS shr''
and all other styles of growth congfc'
GATED there, make botanical gar
Doves called cinnamon doves noP ..
among the branches, and crows more ,
POLITICALLY styled ravens, when he'e'
could sing, but think they can ny
across the road giving full test OF tneir
vocables. Birds which learned the'r
chanting under the very caves %
heaven overpowered all with 'nei'
Grand march of the tropics. The mos
Gus dapples the scene with It's sca''e1
ems ers. All shades of Drown an"
o,ara1d and saffron. and brilllance;
melons lines magnosteens scustard
,nnles. guavas pine apples, jessamlne
co laden with aroma they have to nolo |
fastto the wall, and begonias, gIorloaas
on fire and orchids so delicate othef
lands must keep them under cohser''
atorv, but here defiant or all weather.
and flowers more or less AKIN 10 aAa,
1eas and honeysuckles, and hoNes' ana
fuchias and chrysanthemnms ant,
rbododendrons, and fox-gloves, ana
) nansjes, which dye the plains ana
i mountains of Ceylon with heaven.
The evening hour burns incense OF all
STYLES of aromatics. The convolvulus'
I bIue as if the sky had fallen and out,
5 terfiesspangling the air, and arms OF
u trees sleeved with blossoms, and rocks
u upholstered of moss, commlngllhs
C sounds, and sights, and odors, until eye
u and ear, and nostril vie with eacn
D. other as to which sense shall open 5he
D. door TO the most enchantment.
- struggle between music, and perfume
10 and iridescence. OleanGers reellng III
IL intoxication of color Great oanyah
III 4rees that have been changing thelE
d Wind for centuries, each certury car
rvinc out a new plan OF growth al
TO tracted our attention, ana Sd" u
lie pass in the year Of lSy4, as they Sd"
p, mass the generations OF 1874, ana lo'4
ed Colombo is 50 thoroughly embo"ere(
90 in foliage that if you go into one OF IL
IL towers and look down upon the GU.
us Of one hundred and thirty thousah'
yer people you can not see house Ui
ter nthe trees of Ceylon. May you live TO DC
nc hold the morning climbing 40"
IN, through their branches or !. vi
ed evening tipping their leaves VIII
IA, amber and gold. forgive ~
'na Buddhist for the worship OF 're'
until they know OF the ue
md who made the trees. | wonder n
nds that there are some trees IN Ceyl'
oWs called sacred. To me all trees a
ma sacred wonder not that before D
Ser, If them they burn camphor to"e'
her, and hang lamps around its oranch'
ight and hundred thousand people ed
and wear make pilgrimage to TINS III
rom Worship something man must anu
hese Il, he hear of the only being WORT
and If worship, what so elevating a.
the tree, What glory enthroned amid
for foliage. What majestic ooHol'
1t all snrosds out in it's branches. VIVA
lie on voice when the tempests pass thro'
nent, ~ How it looks down upon the
hit to dle and the grave OF centuries.
eroes W., ~, 49,. 81 the tree unlawfully ca
,+rrc,, the race with woe and the
that lifting of another tree brings peac
iginal the soul, let the "ooolian 'p" -
a first +rea and all nations honor H.
There throuoh higher teaching, we 90
as the like the Ceylonese, worship 1t.
was consolatory that when we Nv
, near walk under the tree branches
more oartb we NAV see the Tree OF
aft diff 1,,b;cb hears twelve manner OF
petual and Yields her fruit every mon'h'
styles the leaves OF the tree are io' Wv
luxuri- ing of the nations
abund Nothing is of more thrilling mt
lumage than the Christian achleVelhs'
tyles of this island. The Episcopal churc
What here the National church. ou'
es have Establishment has taken place, anu
lie road Mr.. Gladstone's accomplishing :!
h of the that fact in 1880, all denomlnatlo
saying: on equal platform, and all are
AXE the mighty work. America IS SOU
G drink. no other nation in what has bee
Take for Ceylon. Since 1916 she hs
If ships her religious agents in the
lamps. peninsula of Ceylon. The Spau
ur cups the Howlands, the Doctors Foe
,aves to Saunders and others just as goo
smooth strong have been fighting bach
T. books. sters Of superstition and cruelty
ing $780, er than any that ever swung IL
alton en- or roared in the jungies.
in your Preposterous! says some
your UNI think that any of our Amer
r musical Enronean cities which have
crubbing lopc can ever come through vic
tinct;on. But New York and
tree, say have not stood so long as tn
al. With lonese cities stood Where
estors $50 throne outside of Ceylon on w
ne arms I successive kings reigned tor
ears from time. cities and nations tn
lived far longer than our prese
H. I -. SannlChr