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PITANGA HEDGES ALONG THE ROADWAY 
This scene near Bahia, Brazil, shows one of the best uses of the pitanga—to form a hedge. 
But it is not limited to this use, for it makes a shapely tree, and bears even more heavily, 
when planted alone. 
its strikingly beautiful berries indoors. 
In northern climates, it might be used as a pot plant, and produce 
It is remarkable for the great speed with which 
it develops its fruit, which in the tropics is sometimes ripe within three weeks from the 
appearance of flowers. (Fig. 10.) 
which bear abundantly, and whose 
fruits are of good size and quality, 
marked improvement could probably be 
secured. This has recently been illus- 
trated in California with the feijoa 
(Feijoa sellowiana Berg), a plant be- 
longing to the same family; seeds from 
selected fruits have produced much 
better results than those taken without 
regard to parentage. 
Two varieties have been offered by 
Reasoner Brothers of Florida; one the 
ordinary crimson-fruited pitanga, and 
the other ‘“black-fruited,’’ being con- 
siderably darker in color than the 
common type. Tavares mentions two 
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