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“...92 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES are easily reached by electric tram. Here there is to be seen a large variety of palms, including the cabbage palm, the aeta, the traveller’s palm, so called because water is always to be found at the base of the leaf, the cocoa-nut palm, &c., and other tropical trees of great beauty. Here, too, will be found the magnificent Victoria Regia water-lilies in the ponds. Many of the leaves measure from 3 to 4 feet in diameter, and being turned up at the edge, they closely resemble large green trays. They and the Indian nelumbrium are weeds in the colony; but these are by no means all, for there are red, white, and blue nympheas in all their wealth of beauty. There are also nurseries and trial fields, covering an area of about 40 acres, where experiments with many varieties of economic products, and especially with seedling canes, are conducted. Formerly, new varieties of cane were only obtainable by chance variation. Now the “ arrow ” or bloom of a full-sized cane...”
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“...part the valley opens out into a flat plain, which formerly used to be under sugar canes, but is now for the most part quite uncultivated. The plain has an evil reputation, having been the scene of no less than four blood-curdling murders, the last being when a priest was brutally murdered and was found tied to a tree. At the head of the valley conveyances stop, and visitors proceed afoot up a winding mountain path for about half a mile. The Blue Basin is a small lake, forty or fifty yards in diameter, into which a waterfall precipitates itself in a slanting direction from the midst of dense tropical foliage. Visitors can generally depute a small boy to bathe in the azure waters, I if one of the party does not care to do so himself, | and thus form the foreground to a striking picture for the camera. To the Saddle (18 miles from Port of Spain), The Saddle, a pass in the mountain range dividing the Maraval and Santa Cruz valleys, is a splendid ride or drive through some of the oldest and best...”