. Catalogue of the Palm and Citrus Nursery including tropical and semi-tropical fruit trees. Nurseries (Horticulture) California Santa Barbara Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs. TROPICAL FRUIT TREES AND PLANTS. 5 SPONDIAS LUTEA. Bears a scarlet fruit resembliug the plum. A native of the West Indies. $ each. SOLANUM. S. betaceum. (The Tree Tomato.) A native of South America. The plant grows well with us, and comes into bearing in two years; the fruit can either be eaten raw or cooked, when it has then the flavor of a ripe apricot; will stand light frost. 25
. Catalogue of the Palm and Citrus Nursery including tropical and semi-tropical fruit trees. Nurseries (Horticulture) California Santa Barbara Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs. TROPICAL FRUIT TREES AND PLANTS. 5 SPONDIAS LUTEA. Bears a scarlet fruit resembliug the plum. A native of the West Indies. $ each. SOLANUM. S. betaceum. (The Tree Tomato.) A native of South America. The plant grows well with us, and comes into bearing in two years; the fruit can either be eaten raw or cooked, when it has then the flavor of a ripe apricot; will stand light frost. 25 and .50 cents each. S. corymbosum. (The Melon Shrub.) A native of Peru. A shrub producing fi'uit of color, streaked with violet, with a flavor something like a musk melon. 10 cents each. TAMARINDUS INDICA. (Tamarind.) This magnificent, large, expansive tree extends northward to Egypt, and was found by Baron von Mueller in northwestern Australia; the acid pulp of the pods is well known as a delicious confection. Native of India. 25 cents to SI each. TERMINALIA CATAPPA. { The Tropical Almond.) Said to produce edible seeds in an almond- shaped husk; the husk and leaves yield a black pigment with which India ink is made. Natives of East Indies. -SI each. XIMENIA AMERICANA. Elruit a yellow, plum-shaped drupe, hav- ing a sweet aromatic taste, but are a little rough to the palate; the flovvers have a very sweet-scented odor. Native of the West Indies. .?1 each. ZINGIBER OFFICINALIS. {,The Ginger Plant.) A herbaceous plant; valued for the sake of its aromatic and s emulating properties. 10 cents each. LAGERSTRCEMIA REGIN^. A splendid Indian tree producing flowers in panicles; they are at first pale rose col- ored, and graduallj' deepen to a beautiful purple. 50 cents each. BAUHINIA PURPUREA. An evergreen shrub from the East Indies The bark of one of the varieties is used in tanning; also employed in making ropes. The leaves are, in full grown specimens, one foot across, and
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