THE CUBA REVIEW 



15 



An Avenue of Jambolan Trees 



persistent for a year or more after maturity; these add to the singular appearance of the 

 tree during all seasons of the year. 



There is hardly a single tropical city or town, park or private lawn or garden with 

 any pretensions at all that does not have one or more Royal Poinciana trees. It is the 

 favorite tree for roadside planting throughout the West Indies, as well as in South 

 America as far south as Rio de Janeiro. It is not a native of the American tropics, but 

 was introduced in very early times from Madagascar and has now become thoroughly 

 naturalized in all tropical countries of the world. The tree is rarely over forty feet high, 

 but it has a very wide-spreading crown, which admirably fits it not only as a shade tree, 

 but also makes it possible to display its exquisite flowers to the full sunlight and to the 

 view of the interested passer-by. 



Cultivation of the Jambolan 



The jambolan (Eugenia jambolana) is an uncommonly interesting tree that was 

 introduced from the Far East into Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad and into all the French Colonies 

 at a comparatively early period in the history of the West Indies. Although this important 

 tree is now thoroughly naturalized, it rarely escapes from cultivation or grows wild here 

 as in its native habitat — India, Burma, Siam and Ceylon. In the tropics of the new 



