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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8832, 19 January 1907, Page 2

The finest botanical gardens in the -world are justly claimed by Calcutta — that city or "palaces and pigsties " and statues. The stranger visiting the gardens for the first time will find his wonder and admiration excited by the appearance of an immense banyan tree. lie branches of this tree droop as in our weeping willows, and when a branch is sufficiently long its extremity is- imbedded in the earth, takes root and in turn sends out more branches. In this instance the operation has been repeated until the tree now measures 959 feet in circumference at its base, and has attained a height of 85 feet. lit forms a veritable maze — a marvel to the Occidental eye.