. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 626 GAECINIA is usually regarded as a consummate achievement in the art o£ gardening. Uangost&na, Linn. Manqosteen. Fig. 893. Height 20 ft.: Ivs. 7-8 in. long, elliptic: fls. reddish; petals 4: fr. about2Kin. indiam. 4847. 9:845. 22:2359. II.
. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 626 GAECINIA is usually regarded as a consummate achievement in the art o£ gardening. Uangost&na, Linn. Manqosteen. Fig. 893. Height 20 ft.: Ivs. 7-8 in. long, elliptic: fls. reddish; petals 4: fr. about2Kin. indiam. 4847. 9:845. 22:2359. II. 4:657. Morilla, Desr. Gamboge Tbee. Height 30-50 ft.: Its. more tapering at both ends: fls. yellowish: fr. resem- bling a Morello cherry in size and shape. -yy jj The Mangosteen is a native of the Malay peninsula and archipelago. It is cultivated, and bears fruit in some parts of Ceylon and in a few spots in the Madras Presidency, but no success has been obtained in its cul- tivation in other parts of India. DeCandolle, in his " Ori- gin of Cultivated Plants," says: "Among cultivated plants it is one of the most local, both in its origin, habi- tation and ; In the West Indies it is successfully cultivated in Trinidad and Jamaica, but only in spots where the climate is moist, hot and fairly equable all through the year; for instance, in the Jamaica Botanic Gardens it bears good crops of fair-sized fruit at Castleton, in a val-. ^- J93. The Mangosi. Garcinia MangosT;ir! i One of the choicest tropical fruits. ley on the north side, with a mean temperature of 7C° F. and an annual rainfall of 113 inches, whereas attempts to grow it have failed at Hope Gardens, in the Liguanea plain of the south side, with a mean temperature of 72° and an annual rainfall of 52 inches. Experience in southern India is much the same; it will grow only in valleys,ânot in the open plains. In England the tree has been grown in hothouses and the frait ripened suc- c
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