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To Preserve Kumquats. 



Clip fruit (all fruit should be clipped and never pulled) from the tree, 

 remove buttons, wash in clear water and place in a receptacle 

 containing cold water ; let fruit come to a gentle boil then throw off 

 water and add more cold water covering fruit thoroughly ; allow to 

 simmer gently for half an hour and then again pour off the water. 



For the third time add sufficient cold water to cover fruit, add- 

 ing three-quarters of a poind of white or granulated sugar to every 

 pound of fruit. Allow them to cook gently until the Kumquats can 

 be pierced with a straw and have become as nearly transparent as it is 

 possible, taking care to not allow them to cook too rapidly, else they 

 will crack and burst open, the object being to preserve thera whole. 

 When thoroughly done place in heated glass jars immedidtely, not al- 

 lowing the preserves to cool, and seal tight at once. The result, if 

 recipe is properly followed, will be a most delicious preserve, 



THE JUNIPER CEDAR OF JAMAICA, II. 



An article by Dr. M. T. Masters was noticed in the Bulletin* a 

 short time ago on the Juniper Cedar of Jamaica Dr. Masters pointed 

 out that it is not, as had been supposed, identical with the Juniper^ of 

 Bermuda, but was probably the same species as the " Red Cedar" of 

 N. America 



Prof. C. S. Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard 

 University, has confirmed Dr. Masters'f opinion that our tree is quite 

 distinct from the Bermuda tree, and he states that it is identical with 

 the special Red Cedar that is a native of Florida. 



Commercially this is important, for the Florida tree is the pencil 

 cedar of commerce The trees of Florida and Jamaica will now be 

 known as Juniperus bnrbadensis. 



Plants are available for distribution at Hope Gardens. 

 Extract from Prof. C. S. Sargent's '' Silva of North America." 



Since the tenth volume of this work was published in 1896, I have 

 had several opportunities to re-study in the field the Red Cedars of 

 North America, and it now seems necessary to separate Juniperm vir- 

 giniana as there descriped into three species : 



First, the Juniperus virginiana of Linnaeus, the Red Cedar of the 

 north, with comparatively stout branchlets, erect branches which 

 usually make a narrow, compact pyramidal head, or sometimes in old 

 age become more horizontal and form an open round-topped crown, 

 and fruit which ripens at the end of the first season. Second, the 

 Red Cedar of the Florida peninsula with more slender pendulous 

 branchlets and long often pendulous branches which spread into a 

 broad open head and smaller fruit ripening at the end of the first 

 season. Third, the Red Cedar of western America with rather stouter 

 branchlets, fruit which does not ripen until the end of the second 

 season, and lighter coloured usually reddish brov^ n wood. 



In Florida the Red Cedar, which is not distinguishable from Ju- 

 niperus barbadensis of the West Indies, is a tree sometimes fifty feet 

 in height, with a trunk occasionally two feet in diameter, covered 



♦Bulletin of the Botanical Department, Jamaica, VUL, 55 ; April, 1901. 

 tSilva of North America, XIV., 8!) ; 1902. 



