. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 868 LADRONES ;lia northernmost of the group. The Ladrones lie in an almost straight line north and south. They were cap- tured from Spain in July, 1898, and Guam was retained by the United States chiefly as a coati
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 868 LADRONES ;lia northernmost of the group. The Ladrones lie in an almost straight line north and south. They were cap- tured from Spain in July, 1898, and Guam was retained by the United States chiefly as a coating station. The Ladrones were discovered in 1521 by Magellan in the first voyage round the world. They were the first islands in the Pacific to come into continuous contact with European civilization. The aboriginal race, the Chamorros, is extinct, and was replaced chiefly by Tagals from the Philippines. These have deteriorated. The chief settlement is Agana, on the island of Guam, â which contains a majority of the population of the whole group. The Spaniards had but one mail a year between the Ladrones and the Philippines. The Ladrones are well wooded, but the original flora has almost vanished. None of the Pacific islands pos- sesses any metal, or any native mammal, save a kind of bat. The Ladrones are said to have a more agreeable climate than is common within the tropics. There is moisture at ;\ll tiim-^. Init a so-called "drv season" lasts. LADRONE 1222. Ladrones. from June to Sept., during which time the northeast trade winds prevail. The rainfall is in most places abundant. The highest part of Guam is 1,500 feet above the sea. The Ladrones have exported no fruit to speali of. Cocoanuts and bananas are perhaps the chief fruits. Guava figs and breadfruit grow well. Other products are rice, sugar, indigo, arrow-root, cotton, tobacco, and even wheat. One of the best recent accounts of the Ladrone Islands is in Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia for 1898. For maps of th
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