is twenty-five acres. There are thirty
green-houses, each horn fitly to seventy
live feet long. We went into three oi
four containing nothing but pine-apples, '
ripe: others contained nothing but melons
and cucumbers. Gne peach tree on the
glass wall measured fifty-one fi vt in width
and fifteen fee high, and bears one thou
sand peaches. It is the largest in the
world. The giape-housos—live or six in
all—are 600 feet long, and such grapes’—
We saw pine-apples weighing ten or fif
pouuda each. One gmen-hoiise had only ,
figs, another only mushrooms. But what i
shall be said of the great conservatory, fil
led with every variety of tropical plants??
It is one of the wonders of the world. It i
covers ;.n acre of ground, is 100 feet high,
of oval shape, and cost five hundred thou- ?
saud dollars. It ishcatvd by steam and j
hot water pipes, which in ah are six mile- '
in length. The apparatus consumes 000 |
tons of coal in a year. We saw banana
trees twenty feel high, with clusters ol
fruit, sugar cane, coftee-trees, bamboo, and •
in short, every tropical plant, that can be ;
named. Several of the palm-trees from I
fifty to sixty feet high. The smoke of!
the immense fire underneath is curried in ’
pipes under ground to an outlet in the >
woods. The coal is brought in a tunnel ?
600 yards under ground. One fountain i
throws a jet of water to the height of 275 •
feet. "
Dickens tells the following storv ’
of an American sea captain: “Ou bis last i
voyage home the captain had on board a
young lady of remarkable p r.-onal att-ac !
tions—a phrase I use as one being entire j
ly new, and never met within the tiewspa-'
pers. This young lady was beloved inten i
sly by five yourg gcnlh man passengers, ’
and in return she was in love with them
all very ardently, but without any puli;--,
ular preference for either. Not. krmui. - ■
how to make up her determination in this)
dilemma, she consulted mv friend the cap
tain. The captain being of unoriginal turn ■
of mind, says to the young lady, •,lump
overboard, and many the n un tl. : p>m ; -
after you.’ The you: g lady strinT v. 