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HOCKINGS' GARDEN MANUAL. 



To prepare currants and raisins, see " Fruit Dry- 

 ing." 



THE GUAVA "(Psidium Cattleyanum). 



Evergreen shrubs bearing white flowers, and fruit 

 of various sizes, forms, and colors. We have six sorts 

 in our gardens, of which the Purple or Caitley's, the 

 Large Yellow or Ugg 9 and the Green guava, are the 

 most prolific, and best adapted for general planting. 

 They require a rich soil — moist, but not wet; they may 

 be propagated by seeds, cuttings, and layers, and may 

 be planted at from ten to twenty feet apart, according 

 to the sort. They are used for dessert, and make an 

 exquisite jelly. The large egg guava is considered by 

 some persons to be much improved by baking, Time 

 for transplanting, April to August. 



HERBERT VALE CHERRY- 



(Antidesma Dallachyanum). 



This is a handsome, umbrageous, evergreen tree, 

 growing to the height of thirty or forty feet, and is 

 found growing in alluvial soil on the banks of the 

 Herbert River, Dalrymple Gap, and other places near 

 Card well. The foliage is ovate-oblong, from three to 

 six inches long, and the branches are very brittle. The 

 fruit, which is borne in great profusion, on racemes 

 about four to six inches in length, resembles in its 

 appearance the Biggaru Cherry. It is about one inch 

 in diameter ; the skin is white to yellow, tinted and 

 splashed with red ; the flesh is juicy, with a sprightly, 

 agreeable, acid flavor, it is reddish in color, and adheres 

 to the stone \ the latter is in form a disc, being 

 thickest in the centre, where it is nearly a quarter of 

 an inch thick. Mr. F. M. Bailey, who brought plants 

 from the Herbert River for the Acclimatisation Society, 



