The drama of Saint Helena . e grew close to the banian ofIndia; the birch of the north beside the baobab ofAfrica. Noble cedars stretched their great rigidarms near the flexible stipes and the plumes of thecocoa-trees ; tapering poplars raised their crestsabove the round tops of the tamarinds. Under theslender springings of the beech-trees, white and redcamélias blossomed in big bunches ; ivy could beseen climbing the trunks of the sassafras, while thecreepers of Brazil wound their tendrils and hung theirviolet clusters about the branches of the vegetable variety flourished to
The drama of Saint Helena . e grew close to the banian ofIndia; the birch of the north beside the baobab ofAfrica. Noble cedars stretched their great rigidarms near the flexible stipes and the plumes of thecocoa-trees ; tapering poplars raised their crestsabove the round tops of the tamarinds. Under theslender springings of the beech-trees, white and redcamélias blossomed in big bunches ; ivy could beseen climbing the trunks of the sassafras, while thecreepers of Brazil wound their tendrils and hung theirviolet clusters about the branches of the vegetable variety flourished to a remarkabledegree in this spot. There were tree-like ferns andgiant bamboos, bowers of box-trees six feet high,and impenetrable thickets of aloes. Here, palm-treessoared to an unusual height, and the Norfolk pine,rising three hundred feet into the air, towered aboveeverything. Henry first saw Plantation in August, a wintermonth at Saint Helena. Yet nearly all the trees hadleaves, flowers or fruit. Indeed, perpetual summer. •; -
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