Note 65 — Chapter VII · NUWARA ELIYA

The thanksgiving services in June, at the Cathedral, Colombo, as the equivalent of a ‘Harvest Home,’ were also pretty and characteristic, the church being adorned with wreaths of the glossy green coffee and cinnamon, with a profusion of pine-apples, shaddocks, brinjals, bunches of oranges, lemons, and limes, green and yellow cocoa and areca nuts, graceful pepper, and lovely nutmegs, and, in short, all manner of tropical ‘fruits of the earth.’