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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 indicated 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 



