Boston Post in Boston, Massachusetts

Humboldt rediscovered giant plants and tropical wonders

The account notes 64 foot willows in Caraccas and arborescent ferns in South America. It cites Macpalrochiquahuitl or hand-tree with bark flowers, other colossal trees with large blossoms, a four foot circumference flower on the Magdalena, a three foot diameter blossom weighing fourteen pounds, and Victoria regia in the Amazon valley. It states Brazil hosts diverse climate zones and most American productions, with oaks pines and roses absent south of the equator, and mentions a pine variety grown in Rio and beech forests in Chili.