154 THE GUAVA, ORANGE, AND LIME TREES. 



This tree grows all over India ; and, like the coffee 

 plant, embraces some 30 degrees of latitude, and so 

 is capable of bearing a great variety of climate and soil. 



THE GUAVA TREE. 



This excellent fruit tree could be easily introduced 

 into America. The Southern States would be sufficiently 

 temperate. It grows in climates in India colder than 

 any part of Georgia. No tree yields a greater abundance 

 of fruit, and guava jelly is known all over the world. 

 These trees, &c., not being in America, shows a great 

 lack of individual enterprise. 



THE ORANGE TREE. 



This tree could be introduced from the North East of 

 India, from any part, from 25 North Lat. up to 33. 

 Of course there would be a vast difference between those 

 trees from high latitudes, and those of West Indies under 

 the line. My belief is, that the knowledge of the West 

 Indies has been a misfortune to America, for all experi- 

 ments in introducing exotics have invariably been made 

 on West India plants, because they are easily to be ob- 

 tained ; and as such experiments have proved failures, 

 ergo, none of these exotics would answer in America. 

 There is the pomegranate tree, which thrives best in 15 of 

 N. Lat. in East India, yet it is grown all over Georgia. 



THE LIME TREE. 



This tree is a kind of companion to the guava and 

 orange trees. Surely this would do well in America. 

 It yields most abundantly of fruit ; and is all over East 



