With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions . Government House with itsbeautiful botanical garden was the recipient of a salary of$24,000 per annum and that his authority in the island wassupreme. The cocoa industry had been rapidly developingunder his regime and the planters were in truth becoming-rich as he had indicated. A New York manufacturer ofchocolate, who had large interests in the island, subsequentlyconfirmed this statement with much gusto when he tol
With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions . Government House with itsbeautiful botanical garden was the recipient of a salary of$24,000 per annum and that his authority in the island wassupreme. The cocoa industry had been rapidly developingunder his regime and the planters were in truth becoming-rich as he had indicated. A New York manufacturer ofchocolate, who had large interests in the island, subsequentlyconfirmed this statement with much gusto when he told ofthe increasing value of the cocoa bean and of the pains thatwere being taken to cultivate that product in sufficient the: island of TRINIDAD. 125 quantity to meet the increased demand for cocoa andchocolate the country over. While the official tete-a-tete wason, Busbey, Mann and myself wandered into the gardenssurrounding the house. We lifted a nutmeg from the nut-meg tree, a cocoa bean from the cocoa tree and a few red-pepper berries from the red-pepper bush. Oh, what a country for a botanist! said Mann, andto think we have come to Trinidad, a little island in a far-. SAMAN TREE AND PARK, PORT OF SPAIN. off sea, to learn how gardens should be made and how theyshould be sustained. Here they have it, while we in Wash-ington cant even secure sufficient appropriation to make arespectable botanical garden for the great Government of theUnited States. Look at the banyan yonder; the royal palmsand saman tree, famous among botanists; and the beautifuleucalyptus! You had better tell it to Tawney! said Busbey, and wewalked back to say adieu to the Governor. 126 WITH spe:aki:r cannon through tpie: tropics. Lady Jackson, dignified and courtly, was saying good-byeto the visitors; the Speaker having ended his talk with theGovernor took her proffered hand and passed to the youngniece. Ah, said the Speaker, I have seen so many beautifulyoung women upon this trip, I have been admonished Is
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