. Catalogue of the Palm and Citrus Nursery including tropical and semi-tropical fruit trees. Nurseries (Horticulture) California Santa Barbara Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Kinton Stevens, Santa Barbara, California. Semi-Tropigal Fruit and Orna- mental Trees ^ Plants, ACACIA ARABICA. (The Gum Arabic ;) A large tree, covered with long, straight whitish colored spines. The tree is common in upper India, will do well on heavy soil, and thrives even on gravelly land. The bark and pods are mucn used in tanning. The leave
. Catalogue of the Palm and Citrus Nursery including tropical and semi-tropical fruit trees. Nurseries (Horticulture) California Santa Barbara Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Kinton Stevens, Santa Barbara, California. Semi-Tropigal Fruit and Orna- mental Trees ^ Plants, ACACIA ARABICA. (The Gum Arabic ;) A large tree, covered with long, straight whitish colored spines. The tree is common in upper India, will do well on heavy soil, and thrives even on gravelly land. The bark and pods are mucn used in tanning. The leaves and pods make excellent fodder Tor cattle; the gum is the gum arabic of commerce. It is quite hardy, and stands several degrees of frost. 25 cts. each. ABERIA CAFFRA. [The Kai Apple.) This is a tall shrub, yielding an edible fruit of a golden yellow color, about the size of a small apple. It is commended as â a hedge plant, as it is densely clothed with stong dry spines. Native of Natal. 0 -cts each. ARALIA PAPYRIFERA. (The Jungle Plant of Formosa.) The Rice-paper tree'of the Chinese. Of the pith of this plant the rice paper of China is made; one of the most ornamental plants growing, rising as they do here with us in Santa Barbara to the height of twenty feet. An evergreen, and will stand several degrees of frost. 25 cts. each. ARBUTUS UNEDO. (The Strawberry Tree.) An elegant shrub, but very little grown as yet in California; largely grown in Spain and the south of France; it bears a fruit with the flavor of a strawberry: an agree- able wine is prepared from its flowers in the Island of Corsica. $1 each. CAPPARIS SPINOSA. (The Caper Bush.) The flower buds of this plant form the well known French Capers of commerce; it is a free bloomer with us here from June to October. The flowers are very beautiful and the foliage attractive. 35 cts. each. CERATONIA SILIQUA. (Carob Tree or St. John's Bread.) A native of the Levant. A tree of mod- erate growth, attaining eventually a very
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