SOME OTHER TREES 



Old Linnaeus gave it that name, because it 

 described euphoniously as well as scientifically 

 the fact that the sap which exudes from this 

 fine American tree is liquid amber. Now isn't 

 that better than ^^gum" tree? 



With trees in general as objects of interest, 

 I have always felt a special leaning toward 

 tropical trees, probably because they were rare, 

 and indeed not to be seen outside of the 

 conservatory in our Middle States. My first 

 visit to Florida was made particularly enjoyable 

 by reason of the palms and bananas there to 

 be seen, and I have by no means lost the 

 feeling of admiration for the latter especially. 

 In Yucatan there were to be seen other and 

 stranger growths and fruits, and the novelty of 

 a great cocoanut grove is yet a memory not 

 eclipsed by the present-day Floridian and 

 Bahamian productions of the same sort. 



It was, therefore, with some astonishment 

 that I came to know, a few years ago, more 

 of a little tree bearing a fruit that had been 

 familiar from my boyhood, but which I was 

 then informed was the sole northern represen- 

 tative of a great family of tropical fruits, and 



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