Excerpt from The Life of Sir Charles J. F. Bunbury Bart, Vol. 2: With an Introductory Note by Sir Joseph Hooker, C. B., G. C. S. I Then as we passed through the town, our eyes were caught at every moment by remarkable plants and beautiful flowers in all the gardens: the most splendid blue Ipomeas and orange Bignonias covering the trellises and hanging over the garden walls; the Poinsettia and the Datura arborea in profuse bloom in the open ground; Bananas, Coffee bushes, and all sorts of tropical plants, except Palms, of which I see but few. We, the Lyells and ourselves, have hired for a week a set of rooms in the house of a Portu guese merchant; very pleasant rooms, spacious, very clean and very airy, in a fine Situation. The View from our Sitting-room windows is indeed glorious, ranging over the steep Slopes covered with gardens of Eden-like luxuriance, interspersed with bright, gay villas like those of Genoa, to the wild, dark, rugged mountains, whose tops are lost in the clouds, while in another direction the sea comes in to complete the View. Madeira is even more beautiful than my recol lections pictured it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.