On this small estate there are some very fine shady avenues of fruit and other trees which we saw nowhere else.

The crow of the game-cock may be heard at all the Havana hotels and the plantations; several wealthy proprietors have cock-pits of their own, and of course betting is rife and fashionable. We heard a good story of a party near Trinidad, who were carrying to the town some fifteen hundred dollars won at a pit, when they were attacked and robbed by the losers, though the Governor of Trinidad was close behind their volante. Stories of robbers are not so rare that one becomes utterly careless of his safety, or inclined to make long excursions alone. The police are not to be found at every turn, and it is true that marauders discharged from the army, or let loose from prisons, roam about, mostly at night, and waylay the unarmed. Caution is recommended, but Mr. Monson assures us he has ridden for years unarmed, by day and night, without the slightest molestation.

A rather amusing rural scene, showing the love of the fighting cook, was exhibited on our ride to the Carolina House. A family from Havana was in the ears, apparently emigrating to their country estate; the station reached, the most elegant carpet-bags and trunks we had ever seen were tossed into a bullock cart of the roughest construction. The ladies found volantes in waiting, and a very young gentleman mounted a led-horse with saddle and holsters; when fairly in the stirrups, a game-cock (his only apparent baggage) was handed carefully to him by a servant. A shrill crow of defiance to all the games in the neighborhood, was the last we heard of our car companion, who had smoked all the way, and was extremely polite in supplying fire to a damosel who relished the weed amazingly. The practice of ladies smoking is not very common - in public, at least Another instance we had, in the Isabel, of a very pretty Cuban lady, who took her strong cigar after every meal, while parading the deck, and, we must say, her pretty white fingers were not ungracefully employed in twirling it about; her husband smoked at the same time, seeming to think it quite the thing that she should be similarly employed.

And pray tell us, fastidious critic, is there any good reason, if the men will smoke, why ladies should not? We heard one on board ship threaten to eat garlic if her cara spaa would indulge with tobacco I

After talking of robbers late one evening at Mr. Monson's, one of our party who had laughed at the idea of danger, sallied out next day, before breakfast, for a ride on horseback, and soon lost his way. At a rough-looking shantee, he made out to say: "Hotel Americano!" and was civilly shown his road, though considerably alarmed at the barking of a brace of savage-looking bloodhounds that were inclined to track after him. Entering a wild piece of tangled wood, he encountered, at a short turn, a Spaniard mounted on a capital animal, with his holsters evidently full, and a sword, or machette, in his girdle. He began to think the specimen of rather equivocal build, remembered the stories told over the back-gammon board, and shivered, he says, only once; he then summoned courage, and, putting on a brave and amiable look, said, in his meekest tones, with a query at the end: "Hotel Americano?" The ferocious "robber" took off hie hat, and bowing to the holster tops, drew his sword I and pointed in the proper direction, indicating a little turn in the route, close by, with a scimmetrical motion that was not quite to our traveller's taste, but which closed by both pursuing their peaceful paths.

The American did not seem to have minded it much, but ever afterwards we remarked he preferred to ride in company with others I

From Mr. Monson's, short rides on the railroad afford excellent opportunities for observing the peculiar appearance of the country, and the novelty of the vegetation. Occasionally, you come in sight of very beautiful avenues of the Royal Palm, planted with great regularity, sometimes in double or triple, and even quadruple rows; the effect is very striking, comparable to nothing but Egyptian architecture, without much roof. Nothing that could be set down in our regions (if that were possible) would produce such a sensation as a row or two of these superb columnar trees, with their waving branches of green, and their fruit stem. At El Carolina House, there is an avenue of these Palms along the whole road front, giving an air of great stateliness to the property.

One of the very prettiest places we saw, adjoins Mr. Monson's; it is a small coffee estate, extremely well planted, and full of fruit. The owner has a small dwelling to eat and sleep in, but the open air seems to be the home of the family. Here we observed again the enormous quantity of bees that can be fed from the coffee, orange, and other flowers. About one hundred swarms were working away most industriously, with no other attention than having been placed in a hollow log about three feet long, and open at both ends. This log is merely placed level on a couple of stones, at an elevation from the ground of about six or ten inches.

There appeared to be no fear of the moth, so destructive an enemy among us. The product of honey and wax from Cuba is very great.

The orange-tree does not fare so well. It is attacked by a coccus, which envelops the whole wood, and has once or twice destroyed nearly all the plants on the island, no attention being given to its extirpation. Some twenty years ago, it obtained the mastery, when orange-trees became extremely rare, the export of the fruit being abandoned. Whole fields hedged with this valuable fruit, disappeared; those now seen were soon afterwards planted, and are again destined to destruction for want of care - shall we say, for want of a Horticulturist to warn the proprietors of their danger, and the remedy?

We might give long botanical descriptions, but why enumerate where the catalogue would include such great variety f Every garden might have, and many do have, such plants as the lemon-scented verbena as a common bush; the Magnolia fuscata and the Pittisporum, are as common as box-bushes with us, sometimes attaining a height of twenty feet. There is also a tree mignonette, Reseda arbusta; the almond grows with the slightest attention; various fruits of the Sapotae family, or Star apples, are common, as are wild plums, the caimeta, and an Anona called Sapota; the latter is agreeable, but, in general, it may be said that the numerous fruits that are so tempting to the eye of the new-comer, are not very good eating. They possess a sweet, sickly flavor that-very few relish. Visitors are apt to keep to their well-esteemed oranges, bananas, and pine-apples. Doubtless, a taste may be acquired for many others by degrees.