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THE TROPICAL FRUIT STOVE. 



are produced in general cultivation vnih us. It is very productive, one 

 hundred and fifty pounds weight of the fruit being often procured from 

 a single tree. In the year 1835. we saw, in the large Tropical House of 

 the Due d'Aremberg, at Enghien, in the Netherlands, a pimento tree 

 on which there could not be less than six or seven pounds weight of 

 fruit in the fullest perfection. 



In regard to propagation and culture, this tree differs not from that 

 of other species of the genus Myrtus, or, indeed, of hard-wooded stove 

 plants in general. 



NUTMEG {Myristica moschata). 



Two species are obtained from this tree, viz., the nutmeg and mace. 

 The former is the stone or kernel, as it were, and the latter is the 

 membranous covering immediately over the shell. The nutmeg is rare 

 in our gardens, but is capable of cultivation by following the same 

 routine as recommended for the Cinnamon (Lauriis cinmmomum). 



