BEAUTY OF FRUIT-TREES. 



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every fence, and ask, " AMiat is that ? And that ?" Let the 

 reader ^vllo has a taste for the beautiful as well as the useful 

 in horticulture, do the same, and look in fancy over the 

 hedge of the nearest provision ground. 



There are orange-trees laden \\\t\\ fruit: who knows not 

 them? and that awkward-houghed tree, with huge green 

 fruit, and deeply-cut leaves a foot or more across leaves so 

 grand that, as one of our party 

 often su^o-ested, their form ought 

 to be introduced into architectural 

 ornamentation, and to take the 

 place of the Greek acanthus, which 

 they surpass _ in beauty that is, of ||| 

 course, a Bread-fruit tree. 



That round-headed tree, with dark 

 rich Portui]^al laurel foliao'e, airano'ed 

 in stars at the end of each twig, is 

 the Mango, always a beautiful object, 

 whether in orchard or in open park. 



Bread frv.it. 



In the West Indies, as far as I have seen, the Mango has 

 not yet reached the huge size of its ancestors in Hiudostan. 

 There to judge, at least, from photographs the jMango 

 must be indeed the queen of trees ; growing to the size of 

 the largest English oak, and keeping always the round oak- 

 like form. Pach in resplendent foliage, and still more rich 



