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and tie them to a stake. Daring the summer keep the 

 bed clean, and destroy all superfluous suckers. 



If a late crop is required, cut down the plants to 

 within a few inches of the ground in spring. 



To improve the fruit, remove the old canes as soon 

 as the fruit is gathered* 



When the pruning is completed, dung the bed well, 

 giving it a dressing of salt, and fork it in. 



THE ROSE APPLE— (Jambosa Aquea). 



The rose apple is a beautiful evergreen tree, which 

 attains the height of twenty feet. The leaves are 

 lanceolate, shining deep green, and the ends of the 

 young shoots are a bright chocolate color ; the flowers 

 appear in clusters, are white, and rather peculiar and 

 attractive, from the vast number of long pendant 

 stamens with which they are furnished. The fruit is 

 of a pale yellow, of the size of a walnut, and the effect 

 of the whole contrast of colors, together with the 

 slender and graceful character of the branches, is to 

 form one of the most ornamental of evergreen shrubs. 

 The fruit is produced in abundance, and consists of a 

 soft shell, not very juicy, covering one or more large 

 seeds. It has an agreeable flavor, somewhat resembling 

 sweetened rose-water. 



It will thrive in any good garden soil : may be propa- 

 gated very easily from seeds or by layers, and may be 

 planted after rain any time from April to August, at 

 sixteen feet apart. It blossoms in September. 



The only pruning necessary will be to remove any 

 crowded or cross branches, and occasionally to shorten 

 long straggling shoots. 



THE SHADDOCK or PUMPLENOSE. 



(Citrus Decumana). 



The pumplenose is a native of Java, the leaves and 



