. An encyclopædia of gardening; . 780 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part a few stocks to be inoculated from bearing trees. Thesebeing properly cased and packed, would arrive as safeas orange-trees usually do; might be treated like themwhen unpacked; and planted in a border of strong richsoil, to be trained on a trellis or wall near the the plants were established, horizontal training andringing, accompanied by a Jamaica temperature, wouldsoon produce fruit. 5979. The nnchovy-pear isthe Grias caiiliflora, L. { 2. t. 217. f. 1. 2.) Polyan. Monog. L. and Guitijerce,3.{fig. 5
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . 780 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part a few stocks to be inoculated from bearing trees. Thesebeing properly cased and packed, would arrive as safeas orange-trees usually do; might be treated like themwhen unpacked; and planted in a border of strong richsoil, to be trained on a trellis or wall near the the plants were established, horizontal training andringing, accompanied by a Jamaica temperature, wouldsoon produce fruit. 5979. The nnchovy-pear isthe Grias caiiliflora, L. { 2. t. 217. f. 1. 2.) Polyan. Monog. L. and Guitijerce,3.{fig. 524.) It is a stove tree, frequently growing to theheight of fifty feet in the West Indies, where it is a na-tive. The leaves are oblong, and two or three feet flowers numerous on short peduncles, large andwhitish. The drupe is ovate, and crowned with a calyxlike the pomegranate, about the size and shape of an alli-gators egg : it is pickled, and eaten like the East Indianmango, which it greatly resembles in taste. It grows ge-nerally in low moist bottoms, or
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