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III. On the Cultivation of the Jamrosade, Eugenia Jambos of Linnccm, 

 in the National Garden at Paris, abridged from the account given 

 by M. Thou in in the Annates du Museum, Vol. 1. page 857. By 

 Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. F.R.S.fyc. Secretary. 



Read April % 1811. 



Th e Jamrosade, or Eugenia Jambos, of Linn^us, is one of those 

 trees, the fruit of which is seldom brought to perfection in 

 Europe. — In Hindostan, where it grows wild, it is called Jambos, or 

 Jambose, and in those colonies where it is cultivated, Jamrosade, 

 or Rose Apple. There are several varieties, differing in the size 

 and colour of their fruit ; some red, or reddish ; others white and 

 smaller. Rumphius calls the last variety Jambosa Sylvcstris alba, 

 and this is the tree I now propose to describe. 



The species being already well known and figured, I shall 

 only mention the differences peculiar to this variety with white 

 fruit, its habit at Paris, and the method there adopted to make 

 it produce fruit. 



Our tree is at present about eleven feet high, with a stem two 

 inches and a half in diameter at the base, branching from below 

 the middle into a pyramidal head. The leaves are undivided, 

 smooth, opposite, of a deep green, coriaceous, and not unlike those 

 of some Peach trees, but larger. The buds push forth young leaves 

 in the beginning of summer, of a most lively red, which change 

 gradually to their permanent deep green colour. The bunches of 

 flowers also appear at this period, terminating the branches, from 

 two to six being clustered together. Petals, four, greenish white, 

 about as large as those of Apple blossoms. Stamens very numerous, 

 in a tuft half as long as the petals, their filaments pale violet colour 

 towards the top, where they diverge, their anthers yellow. Pistil, 



