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rains, yet kept regularly moist. When they 

 are about a foot high, plant one foot apart in 

 rows, in sandy loam, where they may remain 

 till wanted. 



Linnceus. Nat. Orel Anonaceae. 

 Polyandria, Polygynia, Linn. Calyx com 

 posed of three sepals connected at the base. 

 Petals 6, innermost smallest. Fruit, many- 

 seeded, pulpy. 



A. GLABRA, Linnceus. Leaves ovate ellip 

 tic, wedge-shaped, smooth. The three outer 

 petals nearly round. Fruit large, thick, and 

 fleshy. Papaw. Kative of the Middle and 

 Western States. Flowers in July. 



The stem is very straight, of a peculiar 

 gray color ; and the leaves have a very dark 

 and glossy-green appearance. To be grown 

 to perfection, it should be treated as a single 

 specimen, in rich soil, in an open situation. 

 Then the tree has a very pretty conical ap 

 pearance. In stony soil it is liable to throw 

 up suckers ; but these are easily kept down. 

 In Philadelphia, it bears fruit freely in the 

 autumn. The largest specimen at Bartram 

 is thirty feet high and two feet eight inches 

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