. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. edible fruits, held in considerable esteem In the West Indies, and with the Malay apple appear to deserve culture in this country. (See Miller's Diet.) 5988. The custard-apple {Anona reticulata), alligator-apple (A. palustris), sweetsop (A. squamosa), an
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. edible fruits, held in considerable esteem In the West Indies, and with the Malay apple appear to deserve culture in this country. (See Miller's Diet.) 5988. The custard-apple {Anona reticulata), alligator-apple (A. palustris), sweetsop (A. squamosa), and soursop {A. mu~ ricata), are esteemed West Indian fruits; and the Chere- moyer (A. tripetala), the Cherimolia of some botanists, is the fruit most prized by the natives of Brazil and Peru. All these plants are already in our stoves, and might easily be cultivated as fruit-trees. 5989. The mammee-tree (Mammea americana, L.) Polyan. Monog. L. and Guttiferce, J. is a tall handsome tree, with oval, shining, leathery leaves, and one-flowered peduncles, producing sweet white flowers an inch and a half in diameter, succeeded by roundish fruit, about the size of an egg, and in pulp and taste not unlike the apricot. It is eaten raw alone, or cut in slices with wine and sugar, or preserved in sugar. It is a native of the Caribbee Islands, and was cultivated in 1739 by Miller. 5990. Propagation and culture. It may be raised from the stones or seeds, and treated like other stove fruit-trees. It has been cultivated by Knight, who found it rather im- patient of a very high temperature. {Hort. Trans, hi. 464.) 5991. The lee-chee and long-yen. The lee-chee is the Bimocarpus Litchi, W.{Lam. ill. t. 306.) Octan. Monog. L. and Sapindi, J. It is a stove tree, with compound leaves, not unlike those of the common ash-tree ; a native of China, and introduced in 1786. The fruit is a berry of a red color when ripe, except in one varietv. which remains green : it is much esteemed by Europeans. 5992.
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