46 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Angophora intermedia, De Candolle. 



South-Eastern Australia. This is one of the best of the Ango- 

 phoras, attaining a large size, and growing with the rapidity of an 

 Eucalyptus, but being more close and shady in its foliage. It would 

 be a good tree for lining public roads and for sheltering plantations. 

 The Rev. J. Tenison Woods states, that it is not rarely over 150 

 feet high, that the wood is hard and very tough, bearing dampness 

 well, but that the many kino-particles lessen its usefulness. Care- 

 fully selected, it can be employed in carpenters' and wheelwrights' 

 work. Pasture-animals of all kinds like to browse on the leaves, so 

 that it is regarded as a " stand-by " in seasons of drought [A. R. 

 Crawford]. Mr. Kirton observes, that a single tree of this species or 

 of A. lanceolata will yield as much as two gallons of liquid kino at 

 a time; nearly half of this consists of Kino-tannic acid; fishermen 

 use it to tan their nets [J. H. Maiden]. A. lanceolata (Cavanilles) 

 of the same geographic region is a closely allied species, but its 

 timber is more close-grained, particularly hard and heavy. Flowers 

 of all Angophoras much frequented by the honey-bee [Ch. French]. 

 It is averred, that occasionally a watery fluid drops in dry weather 

 from these trees, as a sign of the copious absorption of humidity 

 [Edw. Martin]. 



Angophora subvelutina, F. v. Mueller. 



Queensland and New South Wales. Attains a height of 100 feet. 

 The wood is light and tough, soft while green, very hard when dry ;. 

 used for wheel-naves, yokes, handles, and various implements; it 

 burns well, and contains a large proportion of potash [C. Hart- 

 mann]. Dr. Bancroft lauds the kino as particularly effective in 

 diarrhoaa. 



Anona Cherimolia, Miller.* 



Ecuador to Peru. One of the " Custard- Apples." This shrub or 

 tree might be tried in frostless forest-valleys, where humidity and 

 rich soil will prove favorable to its growth. It is hardy in the mild- 

 est coast-regions of Spain, also in Chili. In Jamaica it is cultivated 

 up to nearly 5,000 feet [W. Fawcett]. Grows readily from seeds. 

 It yields the Cherimoyer fruit. The flowers are very fragrant. A. 

 muricata L. (the Sour Sop), A. squamosa L. and A. sericea Dunal 

 (the Sweet Sop) and A. reticulata L. (the Custard-Apple), all natives 

 of the Antilles, can probably only under exceptionally favorable con- 

 ditions be grown in any extra-tropic countries, though they produce 

 fruit still in Florida. A. reticulata and A. squamosa produce just 

 outside the tropics in East-Australia still heavy crops of fruit 

 [Edgar], and may ripen also yet at Port Jackson [Fred. Turner]. 

 These two are reared in Jamaica up to 3,500 feet elevations [W. 

 Fawcett]. In the Cape Colony A. reticulata fruits well all along the 

 frost-free coast- region and also in sheltered localities away from the 

 sea where the temperature does not fall below 27 F.; the first fruit of 

 the season [T. R. Sim], 



