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handsome plant with large leaves and ra¬ 
cemes of white flowers. 
Chrysophyllum cainito or Star Apple, 
is another of the highly prized fruits of 
tropical countries. The fruit, which is 
about the size of an orange, has a very 
palatable pulp, varying from white to pur¬ 
ple. The leaves of the different varieties 
of this tree are large, with an under sur¬ 
face of silky hairs that run from silvery 
white to deep russet colors, making it as 
ornamental as a tree bearing fine flowers. 
The Citrus family presents many vari¬ 
eties of fruit that are more or less dif¬ 
ferent in character. The Grapefruit 
should be represented by any of the stand¬ 
ard varieties and at least one tree of the 
Foster with its beautiful rose-colored pulp. 
The Orange should be represented by a 
Pineapple, a Ruby, a Washington Navel, 
a Valencia Late, a Tangerona and a Tar- 
diff. 
Then should come a Mandarin, a Tan¬ 
gerine, a Satsuma, a Tangelo, a Kum- 
quat, Lemon, Mexican Lime, Tahaiti 
Lime, a Sour Rangpur Lime and a Cit¬ 
ron. In this list are 18 different kinds of 
Citrus fruit that are desirable for quite 
different qualities that each possess, that 
are different from anything else. 
Coffea arabica is the Coffee Tree, a low 
growing tree that does very well in 
Southern Florida. It has a handsome, 
large leaf that is quite ornamental. 
The Diospyros or Japanese Persimmon 
should be represented by at least one va¬ 
riety and probably the most desirable of 
these is “Tamopan,” a very large, seed¬ 
less kind that is not astringent. 
Feijoa sellowiana is a fruit tree or 
bush of small size allied to the guavas. 
The fruit which is about the size of a 
peach and somewhat longer than it is 
wide, has a pleasant flavor and a perfume 
that is so strong, a basket will smell of it 
three weeks after the fruit has been re¬ 
moved from it. This shrub bears in three 
years from the seed. This shrub, unlike 
the Guava, will stand a temperature as 
low as 10 degrees above zero. 
Mexico has several varieties of this 
fruit and already nurserymen are adver¬ 
tising more than one variety. 
Ficus, or the Fig, of which there are 
four varieties that are quite different in 
character and all delicious, all do well in 
Florida. 
These are the Brunswick, Celeste, Green 
Ischia and Lemon. 
The Elaeagnus or Oleaster is a fine 
hedge plant bearing a fruit that can be 
used for making jelly. 
Eriobotrya Japonica or Loquat is a win¬ 
ter and spring fruit with a delicious flav¬ 
or that makes them palatable when eat¬ 
en raw or in the preserved state. 
Among the Eugenias are the Surina.m 
or Cayenne Cherry with a ribbed fruit 
of an orange-red color and a peculiar 
flavor that is greatly relished by many 
persons. Then there is a black fruited 
variety of the Surinam. 
The Brazilian Cherry and the Jambo- 
lam Plum are fruits resembling the above 
in their pulp. 
The Malay Apple and the Rose Apple 
of this family have a very different meat 
with a very strong fragrance and flavor 
of a summer rose. These are ornamen¬ 
tal trees with odd and peculiar flowers 
with a strong pineapple, fragrance. 
