Every holyday cveninj the public band
of music plays there, and thither resort
all ranks and conditions of people to en
joy the fine music and indulge in socia
bility with their friends. The rapid
growth of the trees planted in the Plaza
in 1839 is truly surprising. One palm
tree already measures six feel in circum
ference at the ground. The almond
trees are about six inches in diameter,
twenty feet high, and their branches co
ver an area of more than twenty feet in
diameter. A row of cypress trees have
attained the height of about twenty five or
thirty feet. Orange and lime trees arc as
far advanced as apple trees would bo in
our country in ten years, and last year
and this have been loaded will) fruit. Yet
with all this facility for laising fruit and
ornamental trees, except in this Plaza,
there aie scarcely any in town.
Tlie Vnluo of C'liiirnctrr.
Young peisons, on commencing life
and having little experience, are fiequently
heard to ridicule public opinion. They
disregard what is said of theni by tho
world, defy tho sentiments of neighbors
and friends, and imagine that they are
I to bo fouT...n,.vpry independent course. A
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