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dogwood, may both be found in ham¬ 
mocks and are very beautiful with their 
early blooms. 
• Two of the native conifers bear trans¬ 
planting well and succeed in almost any 
soil; these are the Juniperus Virginiana 
or red cedar and the cypress, of which Dr. 
Harper mentions two kinds, the swamp 
cypress and .the pond cypress. In culti¬ 
vation these trees make splendid speci¬ 
mens. 
The cabbage palm is one of our finest 
subjects for street or garden planting and 
for the benefit of our new chums I would 
like to mention that the summer is the 
best time to move them and that the larger 
they are the greater the chances for suc¬ 
cess. Be sure and cut off all the roots 
close to the trunk and cut off all the fans 
leaving only the central unopened leaves. 
Do not try to peel off the old leaf stocks, 
nature will do that when the trunk is 
ready to 1 go naked. 
Many of our finest vines are native 
here and may be found in almost all parts 
of Florida. Perhaps the finest of these is 
the Gelsemium sempervirens or yellow 
jessamine which is evergreen and fills the 
air in January with its fragrance. It is 
easily transplanted and takes kindly, if 
rather slowly, to any situation. The Te- 
coma radicans with its euphonious local 
name of “cow itch/’ is a grand creeper 
with bright red tubular flowers and its 
cousin, the Bignonia crucigera or cross 
vine, with deeper red tubes, will climb to 
the top of the highest pine. 
The Virginia creeper, Parthenocissus 
quinquefolia is also' found in hammocks 
but in handling this or any other of the 
native vines it is well to carefully avoid 
the Rhus toxicodendron or poison ivy. 
This plant may be easily distinguished 
from the former by its foliage being 
placed in groups of three, while the true 
Virginia Creeper is distinctly five leaved. 
A very graceful spring flowering shrub 
is the Chionanthus Virginiana or “gray- 
beard, ” which is usually found in ham¬ 
mocks, though recently I was rather as¬ 
tonished to find it growing profusely in 
the poorest scrub. If you are near a scrub 
you will find plenty of plants to fill up a 
large garden, though you may have some 
difficulty in getting some of them to grow 
in garden conditions. One in particular 
is well worth transplanting and that is the 
Ceratiola ericoides, sometimes called 
“rosemary.” “Bear grass’' is another 
plant that can be used from the woods and 
is very interesting with its tall spike of 
creamy blossoms. Under the name of 
Yucca Filamentosa it will be found in 
many catalogues, but the natives know it 
best by its strong-fibred leaves which 
they use instead of string to hang their 
bacon in the smokehouse. 
There are many ferns here which will 
thrive in a shady border even if taken 
from the water. The cinnamon fern and 
the woodwardias and Blechnums will 
soon adapt themselves to drier conditions. 
The tree-loving ferns such as the Poly- 
podium incanum or resurrection fern and 
the Polypodium aureum or golden fern, 
will soon make themselves at home on 
the oaks and palms that you are supposed 
to leave on your garden site. The lovely 
little orchid, Epidendron Tampense will 
also repay you for a little trouble in wir¬ 
ing it on an oak tree. Every time you 
go on a picnic to a nice thick wood brine 
