. Native and exotic plants, trees & shrubs. Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Palms Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. The Papaw, or Melon Papaw. CARISSA Ardulna.* Amatungula, or Maritz- gula of Natal. A choice evergreen shrub, rathei hardy, with thick, camellia-like leaves; very glossy. Flowers are large, fragrant, white, and borne pro- fusely. The fruit is dark red, 1 to 1% inches long, resembling in flavor red raspberries, and having a papery skin and few small seeds. A fine pot shrub.
. Native and exotic plants, trees & shrubs. Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Palms Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. The Papaw, or Melon Papaw. CARISSA Ardulna.* Amatungula, or Maritz- gula of Natal. A choice evergreen shrub, rathei hardy, with thick, camellia-like leaves; very glossy. Flowers are large, fragrant, white, and borne pro- fusely. The fruit is dark red, 1 to 1% inches long, resembling in flavor red raspberries, and having a papery skin and few small seeds. A fine pot shrub. Well worthy extensive planting in South Florida and California. The English pronounce it unsur- passed for jam making. Good pot-plants, 40 cts. each, $4 per doz. CASIMIROA edulis.* White Sapota of Mexico and Central America. The fruits are about the size of a Mandarin orange, and of a delicious, peach-like taste. Undoubtedly will thrive in South Florida. A good subject for growth under the fruit sheds now becoming common. Pot-grown plants, 50 cts. each, $5 per doz. CHRYSOPHYLLUM Cainlto.** Star Apple. A handsome tree, 15 to 25 feet high, evergreen, bearing fruits 2% to 3 inches in diameter, of pecu- liar though agreeable flavor. Leaves are pointed, 4 or 5 inches long, dark green above, silvery brown beneath, and very handsome. Fruits are purple or green. Fine plants, pot-grown, 1 year old, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz.; 2 years old, 20 cts. each, $2 per doz.; 3 years old, 30 cts. each, $3 per Chrysophyllum Cainito. Giant Star-Apple. Selected from fruit grown in Jamaica. vl year old, 20 cts. each. COCOS nucifera.** Cocoanut. See Palms and Cycads. COCCOLOBA uvifera.* Sea Grape, or Shore Grape of the West Indies. A low, bushy tree, with roundish leaves, having prominent red veins, mak- ing an elegant appearance. Charles Kingsley de- scribes it as being the most beautiful broad-leaved plant he had ever seen. Of scrambling habit, bear- ing spires of purplish red fruits about the
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