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REMARKS ON THE GENUS TAMARINDUS. 
Auhrietia deltoidea matches the above for height, is lilac, and may be propagated 
the same way, or by division. 
Ajaa; pumilus should be planted in September, or even when in flower they will 
move exceedingly well without injury. 
Erythronium dens-canis, red and white, makes a beautiful bed, and when the 
flowers are past the leaves are exceedingly handsome ; may be managed as Ajax 
pumilus. 
These, with Coronilla glauca and Neapolitan violets, brought forward under 
cover, and planted out in March, giving them slight protection during frost ; early 
tulips, hyacinths of colours, narcissus of sorts, anemonies, and beds of some autumn- 
sown hardy annuals, as Nemophila, Clarkia, Collinsias, will be found sufiicient crops 
to make flower gardens look better and gayer than they generally do at an early 
season of the year. 
Anemonies, if marked the season before, might be made to fill several beds with 
different colours, red, white, blue, &c. 
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REMARKS ON, AND CULTURE OF, THE GENUS 
TAMARINDUS. 
This genus contains two species, one from the East, and the other from the 
West Indies, which have both been long held in high estimation by many people, 
on account of the acid, yet sweetish taste of the fruit, which, after some preparatory 
processes, is rendered agreeable to the palate, and of much service in medicine. 
T, indica, or East Indian Tamarind, is a tree of great magnitude, when full grown 
often exceeding fifty feet in height, with corresponding branches. The season of 
its flowering is generally about June and July, in which state it presents rather 
an interesting appearance, the calyx being of a straw colour, the petals of a clear 
yellow beautifully striped with red, the filaments purple, and the anthers brown. 
In the stoves of this country they seldom or never produce flowers, owing, perhaps, 
to there being too little room allowed them for the extension of their roots and 
branches. P. Miller says, he had several plants twenty years old, and upwards 
of fifteen feet high, which never had shown blossoms. The timber of the 
Tamarind tree is heavy, firm, and hard ; sawn into boards, it is converted into 
many useful purposes in building. The pulp contained in the pods is used both 
in food and medicine. The Tamarinds which are brought from the East Indies 
are darker and drier, but contain more pulp : being preserved without sugar, they are 
fitter to be put into medicines than those from the West Indies, which are much 
redder, but being preserved with sugar are more pleasant to the palate. The use 
of Tamarinds was first learned from the Arabians ; they contain a larger proportion 
of acid, with the saccharine matter, than is usually found in acid fruits. The 
