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either shaddock (grape-fruit), fig, pawpaw or olive 

 or perhaps all four judging from their height and 

 distance apart. These trees all attain about the same 

 size at maturity, although the shaddock has a slight ad- 

 vantage, possibly; and all are larger than any of the 

 other trees that were introduced. Figs also were in the 

 garden, along with pomegranate "shrubs." Pos- 

 sibly it is these which are indicatSd by the smaller 

 dozen of trees immediately south of the house, al- 

 though it is more likely that these were oranges and 

 lemons, and that the lower-growing, less tree-like spe- 

 cies were omitted from the plan. The natural habit 

 of the pomegranate is shrubby, but it is possible to 

 train it into a tree from fifteen to twenty feet high. 



The plan does not show any of the distinctly trop- 

 ical forms which are indigenous, such as the palmetto 

 and the plantain, although such forms are as easily 

 distinguished, on a semi-pictorial drawing such as this 

 which is the sort of thing the old surveyors and map 

 makers nearly always produced as the ones here in- 

 dicated. Indeed the planting of palmetto along the 

 ramparts is clearly differentiated. Hence the conclu- 

 ison that the native growth was not used in the gar- 

 dens; which is, of course, in direct line with what we 

 should expect with the instinctive aim at contrast 

 before pointed out. Pioneers yearn ever for their old 

 world in their new, and these early builders and early 



