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either shaddock (grape-fruit), fig, pawpaw or olive— 
or perhaps all four—judging from their height and 
distance apart. These trees all attain about the same 
size at maturity, although the shaddock has a slight ad¬ 
vantage, possibly; and all are larger than any of the 
other trees that were introduced. Figs also were in the 
garden, along with pomegranate “shrubs.” Pos¬ 
sibly it is these which are indicated by the smaller 
dozen of trees immediately south of the house, al¬ 
though it is more likely that these were oranges and 
lemons, and that the lower-growing, less tree-like spe¬ 
cies were omitted from the plan. The natural habit 
of the pomegranate is shrubby, but it is possible to 
train it into a tree from fifteen to twenty feet high. 
The plan does not show any of the distinctly trop¬ 
ical forms which are indigenous, such as the palmetto 
and the plantain, although such forms are as easily 
distinguished, on a semi-pictorial drawing such as this 
—which is the sort of thing the old surveyors and map 
makers nearly always produced—as the ones here in¬ 
dicated. Indeed the planting of palmetto along the 
ramparts is clearly differentiated. Hence the conclu- 
ison that the native growth was not used in the gar¬ 
dens; which is, of course, in direct line with what we 
should expect—with the instinctive aim at contrast 
before pointed out. Pioneers yearn ever for their old 
world in their new, and these early builders and early 
