. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. Tropical Fruit Plants. 7 CHEYSOBALANTJS Icaco. The Cocoa- Plum. West Indies and South Florida. Of more value as an ornamental shrub than as a fruit. Plant evergreen ; leaves rich and glossy; flowers and fruit very beautiful and distinct; tender. 35 cenks each, $^er dozen. COCCOLOBAuvifera. , or Shore Grape. West Indies
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. Tropical Fruit Plants. 7 CHEYSOBALANTJS Icaco. The Cocoa- Plum. West Indies and South Florida. Of more value as an ornamental shrub than as a fruit. Plant evergreen ; leaves rich and glossy; flowers and fruit very beautiful and distinct; tender. 35 cenks each, $^er dozen. COCCOLOBAuvifera. , or Shore Grape. West Indies and South Florida. "We have fancied it (and correctly) to be a mere low, bushy tree with round- ish leaves. But what a bush ! with drooping boughs, arched over and through each other, shoots already six feet long, leaves as big as the hand, shining like dark velvet, a crimson mid-rib down each, and tiled over each other—' imbri- cated,' as the botanists would say, in that fashion which gives its peculiar solidity and richness of light and shade to the foliage of an old sycamore; and among these noble shoots and noble leaves, pendent everywhere, long, tapering spires of green grapes. This Shore-Grape, which the West Indians esteem as we might a bramble, we found to be, without exception, the most Iseautiful broad-leaved plant which we had . ever ;—Kingsley. 50 cents each, $5 per dozd^j. The Pigeon Plum. The fruit of this species, as well as of the preceding, is pleasant- tasting, and could probably be improved by cultivation. The tree is a handsome evergreen, with smaller leaves than those of C. uvifera. 50 cents each. EUGENIA Brasiliensis (Myrtus Dom- beyi, Eugenia bracleolaris). Brazil Cherry. Brazil. Closely "v allied to jl/zV/zf//. 50 cents each, ^ . E, Jambos {Jambosa vulgaris)^ The Rose-Apple or Jamrosade. (Spanish, Poma rosa.) This beautiful evergreen tree promises exceedingly well in South Florida. The tree is a native of the East I
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