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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



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ascended Caloosahatchie river, in order to get 

 such woods as do not grow in the influence of 

 salt air. .This was really the most interesting 

 part of the route. Gigantic Acrostichums 

 ten feet high covering acres, Epiphytes load- 

 ing the trees, and the entire vegetation trop- 

 ical. A peculiarity of these tropical trees is that 

 for miles they occur to you as mere shrubs, 

 when at some other locality you find them lofty 

 trees. I was much disappointed in the size of 

 most of the forest growth in that region. On the 

 Keys you can scarcely anywhere find a large, 

 (or rather a tall) tree. Some of these were large 

 enough at the base, but we generally found such 

 hollow, and of some we never did find a sound 

 one. You will be disappointed, as I was, to find 

 the growth so small. 1 do not remember to 

 have seen a tree, during the trip, two feet in 

 diameter, with the exception of the live oak, and 

 on the Keys none of them get to be more than 

 thirty or forty feet high. The Mahogany is not 

 found in Florida, and should be erased from the 

 Flora. My authority fur introducing it was a 

 pod picked up on the beach by Dr. Leitner. Hi- 

 biscus tiliuceus was not seen by me, and I think 

 Dr. Blodgett must have got it from cultivation. 

 In Jamaica it is a shrub twelve to fifteen feet 

 high. Terminalia is not a native, and is, I be- 

 lieve, local along the St. John's or near St 

 Augustine. The others mentioned I did not 

 meet with on any of the Keys I visited. Wheth- 

 er they become trees I cannot say, for I forget 

 the sources of my information regarding them 

 when writing my book. It was of course im- 

 possible to visit all of the hundreds of Keys 

 along the reefs, and it is probable that these 

 omissions may occur on more westwardly ones 

 than those I visited." 



I append Dr. Chapman's list of trees obtained 

 (modifying the arrangement) believing that it 

 will be found very interesting. 



Anonaf (Custard Apple). No flowers or fruit, 

 fifteen to twenty feet high. The fruit is said to 

 be egg-shaped, one and a half inches in diame- 

 ter, and eatable when fully ripe. 



Cappnris Jamaicemis (Caper tree). A low tree. 



Canella alba. 



Guaiacum sanctum (Lignum Vitae). Only 

 found, if I am rightly informed, on the "Lignum 

 Y'\Ue Keys," and quite rare there. 



Xanthoxylum Pkrota ( ). 15 to 20 feet 



high. 



Barsera (/innmi/era ((Jumbo Limbo, Gummer 



Limmer). The largest of South Florida trees 

 abounding in gum. 



A myris Floridana (Torch- wood). Mostly 

 shrubby. 



Ximenia Americana (Hog Plum). 2 to 20 feet 

 high. 



, Sehiefferia frutescens f (Crab-wood). A small 

 tree. 



Sapindus (White-wood). This is scarcely the 

 tree of the Southern States and of my Flora; I 

 suspect it is S. saponaria. 



Hypelate panicidata (Madeira-wood). This 

 wood is very like Mahogany and is highly val- 

 ued. It is not abundant and was only found on 

 Metacumba Keys. 



lihus Metopium ( ). 20 to 30 feet high. 



It is very poisonous and we all got peppered by 

 it. 



Pkcidia Erythrina (Dog-wood). A rather large 

 tree. 



Pithecolobium Unguis-Cati. Rarely a small 

 tree. 



Rhizophora Mangle (Red Mangrove). Com- 

 monly a low spreading tree. On the Thousand 

 Islands it attains its largest size, forty to sixty 

 feet. All the low Keys are formed by this tree. 



Conocarpus erecta (White Button-wood). It 

 comprises almost the only fuel used in Southern 

 Florida, and extends north as far as Anclote 

 Keys. 



Laguncularia racemosa (Black Button-wood). 

 A small tree everywhere, or a mere shrub ex- 

 cept among the thousand Islands and north of 

 Cape Sable, where it forms a large tree. 



Eugenia huxifolia (Iron-wood). 25 to 30 feet 

 high. 



Eugenia monticola ( ). South Florida, 



about 20 feet high. 

 Eugenia . 



Eugenia , near dichotoma, but probably 



distinct. This was only seen at Caximbiis Bay, 

 and was called " Naked Wood." 



Eugenia ■ (Stopper-wood). A small tree, 



in fr. 



Gueitarda Blodgetti. Mostly a shrub. 



Randia dusisefolia (Seven year's Apple), with 

 fl. and fr. 



Sid^roxylon pallidum (Mastic). A middle- 

 sized tree. 



Sideroxylon pallidum, var. sphserocarpum, A 

 small tree. 



Sideroxylon . A large tree. 



Chrysophylhim microphyUum. Six to twenty 

 feet high. 



