DCXVIII.—CAROB TREE. 
(Ceratonia Siliqua, L.). 
The get b or rp p. is a pne of sie Europe. 
min 9 to 25 feet high, 
10Wh r fall | of a 
mucilaginous pulp, six to ten inches long, and contain numerous 
seeds. They are often eaten b Uv oorer people in the 
and yields valuable crops. The value of the carob pods exported 
from Cyprus has, in some years, reache ,000. 
There are several cultivated varieties, and as the tree is usually 
ensure large crops. “In the case of [fully grown] male trees 
each branch is usually grafted from a female tree, pais 
if 
the tree is female, one branch must be gra ted with a male 
branch for the same purpose. "—(Haldane.) For cultivation in 
hot and dry districts, with stony vite sped is des doubt that the 
carob is a valuable tree, and des o be widely cultivated. 
It requires warmer conditions than ibe fd. /.^., à mean yes rly 
temperature of, say, 66° F. It is said to pre efe er à fenetre 
subsoil. It begins to bear at about eight years old. A 
codd ae tree may yield pods weighing in the igpteyute about 
2¢ 
s arob trees are MT objects in some parts of the Canary 
Islands, especially above Puerto Cruz, in Tenerife. Ther 
they are evidently medii and produce only a scanty crop o 
pode. In the garden of Dr. Grabham, at Funchal, Madeira, there 
a very handsome carob tree. The m main stem has à circum- 
fossice of 15 feet ; at about 8 feet from the base it divides into 
. numerous wide-spreading branches, and covers a considerable 
area. Asitisthe only tree in the neighbourhood and produces a 
fair erop, it is probably d A 
The carob tree was introduc o Jamaica in 1883, chiefly 
from seed gathered by the amari  Ausetgtairt- Director of Ke wW, 
from the Madeira tree above mentioned. The plants ami grown 
well in the plains, but those that have hitherto flowered have 
produced male flowers only. Steps are now being taken to 
introduce grafted plants from Naples. 
An interesting report on the carob tree fui lately been pre- 
sented to the Foreign Office ed Mr. E. Neville-Rolfe, Her 
