31 MARCH 1939, page 19

More Slypes

A little while before going to the West Indies I complained on this page that the dictionaries had not done justice to the rural as well as ecclesiastical word, slype. A......

—and Cocoa

The folk of Trinidad have doubtless an eye for beauty, but these flaming trees were imported from the continent of South America and the neighbourhood of the Equator for......

Immortelles-

In almost every country that you visit (unless it is quite primeval, like the forests of Brazil) many of the trees that you most admire, and perhaps regard as most......

Negro Yeomen How Harvests Vary As Between The Tropical And

temperate climes! But there are analogies. Yeoman service is the best service all the world over. In Jamaica, for example, the negroes, or for that matter the West Indians, are......

In The Garden In The Very Lovely Botanic Gardens At

Trinidad grows one rare tree that virtually defied all efforts at reproduction. The seeds would not germinate, the cuttings would not root, and of the few layers that developed......

Country Life Official Spring

Spring (official) opened last week " with even more than its usual severity " ; but almost with its usual, and yet always new, pleasantness. The phenologists with their curious......