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Transplant carefully into wet holes. 
Keep e ground o occupied and well fertilized. 
Th photograph of the garden was taken Jul 
1917. It shew ae home garden bounded by ash-gravel ner 
flanked by fields of spring rye; Professor Harper’s experimental 
corn-plots are shown beyond. 
HEnryY Griscom Parsons. 
THE JAMAICA WALNUT 
(With plates 203 and 204) 
erbarium epecens of both the staminate and the pistillate 
he ‘ collected last May by Mr. 
d 
t 
are ae Geese as they appear to be the first of this 
a collected. 
systematic relationship of this tree has been puzzling and 
uncertain. Geographically it is restricted to the southern arid 
pa amaica. The early wri i 
of Jamai e earl i nm the natural! history of 
Jamaica associated the plant with the walnut, whence its common 
it is mall tree with 3-foliolate leaves and a nearly 
lished in 1695 is the subject of this note, and this is, apparently, 
the first reference to the Jamaica walnut. It reads thus 
Nux ju 
Ad ripas fluvii Cobre dicti, et in pare circa urbem St. Jago de la 
Vega locis sylvosis copiose crescit.’ 
n 1725, Hans Sloane, in his Neel Miley of Ca 
oh i Insula J: 8. 
} Translation —Trifoliate walnut, with fruit the size of a nutmeg. Gro 
ee on the banks of the Cobre River and in woods in the meadows ne 
ee - ‘vou to the Islands, Madera, Barbadoes, Nieves, St. Christophers and 
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