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BARTLING, de LEON & CO., 24 STATE STREET, NEW YORK. lobium cyclocarpym); (Philodendrom); Coruntia pyramilata (Palo cuadrodo); Dancy (Cytharexylum candatum, verbenaceae); Leaf of Life, Leaf of the Air (Bryophyllum calycinum, crassalaceae); (Foijoa sellowiana, Brazil); ca); (Piper cordoncilla); (Paico); (Ordinancia); - (Pachira Barrigon); China berry (Melia Azedarach); (Murrya exoti (Pentoclethra); (Pachira fendleri); Biniba (Rollimis orthopotala, Brazil); (sapium Moritzium); (Rheo bicolor); (Rhinacanthus nasutus); (Schizolobium excelsium); (Strychnos nux vomica); (Thevetia nitida); (Thrichilia); (Vismia panamensis); —— (Vinca rosea); (Vernonia); Red Croton (Xanthoseoma sp.); Malagueto grande (Xylopia grandiflora); Star apple (Phrysophillum Cainito); Grendilla (Passiflore quadrangularis); Fabaceae, East Indies (Agati grandiflora); Four winged bean, Saguidillas (Botor tetragonoloba, Fabaceae); Calladium colocasia, Taro (Colocasis esculentum, Araceae); (Didymopanax morototoni); Pito (Erythrina colallodendron); Rubiaceae, native (Hamelia patens); (Lantana camara, Verbenaceae); (Philodendron, Aroideae); Tube rose (Polianthes pancratium tuberosa, Lilliaceae); (Thevetia nerifolia, Apocyneae); Indian kale (Xanthosoma atrovirens, Araceae); Zepher lily (Zephyranthes, amaryllis rosea, Lilliaceae); Psidium guave, myrthaceae. The Weather and Related Meteorological Subjects. Panama weather may be described as very warm during day and cool at night. It is never "hot" here in the sense that it is in New York, Montreal, and Dawson City, in the middle of summer. On the other hand, it is never "cold" in any sense. At night one must frequently resort to a light cotton blanket to keep him from awakening in the morning with his head filled up with a cold; and in the early morning while the fog yet hangs over Culebra Cut it is often so chilly as to make a woolen coat quite comfortable. In the hours between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. it is so warm Panama Banking Company (American Charter) Panama and Colon Drafts and Cable Transfers on the Principal Cities of the World Isaac Brandon & Bros., Inc. -:Panama: Incorporated under the Laws of the State of New Jersey, U.S.A. Capital Stock $750,000, U. S. C. General Merchants SUB-AGENTS OF The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., Scottish Union & National Insurance Co. of London and Edinburg Funds £6,000,000 Sterling Guardian Assurance Co., Ltd. of London, Funds exceed &5,250,000, Sterling REPRESENTATIVES OF W. & A. GILBEY, LTD., LONDON—Wines and Spirits JAMES HENNESSY & CO-Cognac HENRI NESTLE-Condensed Milk B. & J.B. MACHADO, JAMAICA-Cigars "La Tropical" PEEK, FREAN & CO., LTD., LONDON-Fine Biscuits THE WILLIAM J. LEMP CO., ST. LOUIS-Bottled Beer BARTON & GUESTIER, BORDEAUX-Clarets and White Wines PHILIP W. HEYMAN, COPENHAGEN-Fine Danish Butter AUGUSTINER BRAU-Celebrated Munich Beer AGENTS OF Isaac Brandon & Bros., Inc., 17 BATTERY PLACE, NEW YORK, Commission Merchants as to make any coat uncomfortable in the sun. Women wear summer clothing all the year around in Panama, but few of the men do, largely because they are so conservative that they will not change from the "States" clothing for fear of being suspected of dandyism. Men haven't much sense anyhow. A heavy wind springs up about the middle of each December, blowing across the Isthmus from north to south. It is called the trade wind. It continues Dry Season. to blow until about May 1. While this wind is blowing, the clouds that otherwise would have formed over the Isthmus are carried away, and therefore there is no rain. Now and again the wind will cease long enough for a rain to form. The average rainfall for the months of January to May, for forty years of record at Cristobal, is 11.47 inches; at Ancon for 13 years, 5.24 inches; at Culebra for 20 years, 7.01 inches. This is the season that corresponds to winter in the United States, for it is then that such plants as die each year are withered up, and the trees drop their leaves. It is like the northern summer in that the fruits and flowers are most profuse at this time. The rainy season occupies the eight months of the year not taken up by the dry season. The average rainfall in the wet-season months, May to December Rainy Season. inclusive, at Ancon during a period of 13 years, has been 66.43 inches; Culebra, 20 years of record, 83.94 inches; Cristobal, 40 years, 118.56 inches; Porto Bello, 3 years, 149.20 inches. This is a large quantity of rain. There are few days in those eight months when there is not at least one shower, and this usually occurs between 12 o'clock noon and 2 p. m. Sometimes it rains all day, at other times there are short showers lasting only a few minutes. It has rained three-fourths of an inch in five minutes, 5.86 inches in one hour, 10.86 inches in 24 hours, since the American occupation, and these maximum records are typical of many other heavy storms. The sudden downpours flood the streams; the Chagres River, a placid little stream before the lake was formed, would fill to its banks, often overrunning the surrounding fields; and sometimes railroad traffic was interfered with when the old main line through the river bottom was in use. The rains are not accompanied by heavy winds, and, therefore, no damage to crops is done, and, except in cases of very severe storms "LA ULTIMA MODA" P. ODUBER & Co. CORNER 8TH AND SOSSA THE ONLY STORE IN PANAMA DEVOTED SOLELY TO LADIES' ARTICLES Best French, English and American Goods The favorite Store among the American Ladies of the Isthmus. While in Panama do not fail to call at THE LADIES' STORE LOCAL 'PHONE 316, PANAMA |