CITRUS AND TROPICAL FRUIT, Continued ' 
Surprise Navel. The best of all navels so far tried 
in Florida. Season December to February. 
Valencia. Late. Synonyms: Tardiff, Hart’s Tardiff, 
Hart’s Late, etc. Very late keeper, season being 
from March to July, or even later. A line, heavy 
orange of exceptional value. 
TANGELO [9] Sampson Tangelo. A hybrid be¬ 
tween a tangerine and pomelo, of delicious flavor. 
A very flne breakfast fruit that commands an 
excellent market price. The skin is smooth and 
pulp delicate and tender. Unfortunately very 
susceptible to scab. 
Thornton. A sweeter flavored Tangelo than the pre¬ 
ceding, and preferred by some. 
TROPICAL FRUIT 
The use of tropical fruit trees in ornamental 
plantings is becoming increasingly popular in loca¬ 
tions where climatic conditions permit. Experiments 
have shown that they can be grown over a much 
larger area of Florida than was supposed a few 
years ago. The luxuriant foliage of most of these 
trees renders them very useful where extreme trop¬ 
ical effects are desired. This, in addition to the 
delicious fruit they produce, makes them invalu¬ 
able for garden planting. 
AVERRHOA [1] Carambola. Tropical. Asia. Thriv¬ 
ing well in South Florida, this tree is highly es¬ 
teemed as an ornamental. Its attractive, deep 
yellow fruit, 3 to 4 inches long and an inch and 
a half thick, when cut across forms star shaped 
slices which make an interesting garnish for 
salads. Also makes very fine jelly and delicious 
pickles. 
CASIMIROA [2] edulis. White Sapote. Tropical. 
A large, handsome spreading tree that bears well 
The Guava—Florida’s most popular jelly fruit 
in South Florida, and is hardier than most trop¬ 
ical trees. Fruit is yellow, about size of a small 
orange, round, with smooth skin. The three or 
four seeds are imbedded in the delicious sweet 
pulp, peach-like in flavor. The fruit keeps well 
and has marked pQSsibilities. 
EUGENIA [3] malaccensis. Malay-Apple. Tropical. 
An ornamental tree which grows to about 30 
feet and has heavy foliage. The flowers are a 
red-purple and are followed by nicely flavored 
. red fruit. 
(/guava [4] (Psidium). A grand fruit in all its 
varying forms, even the tropical sorts being of 
special value to Florida because of their surety 
to sprout up after being cut down by frost, and 
bearing after one frostless winter. The fruit is 
always borne in enormous quantity and varies 
in size, color, acidity, juiciness and seediness, our 
aim being to propagate from the very finest types 
we can secure, and to offer only the best. We 
grow many thousands of plants yearly from seed 
only, and offer the following kinds, all of which 
are valuable for cooking, canning, preserving, 
making jelly and the like or may be used in the 
fresh stage with sugar and cream. 
Hardier Cattley Type 
P. cattleyanum. Red Cattley Guava. A vigorous 
evergreen shrub standing sharp frosts, having 
handsome broad evergreen leaves. Fruit small, 
. averaging about an inch in diameter, borne in 
enormous masses, ripening in August. Color, a 
pretty red. Fruit is juicy and subacid, good in 
many ways. A fine plant, also of especial value 
for making hedges in South Florida, as it is un¬ 
usually free from insect pests, such as white flies 
and scale. 
P. lucidum. Chinese or Yellow Cattley Guava. Re¬ 
sembles cattley guava rather closely in growth, 
though not so compact and bushy, bearing an 
abundance of yellow fruit somewhat larger than 
cattley and sweeter. 
Common Tropical Guavas 
P. Guajava. Fruits are variable in size and shape, 
sweet, subacid, and sour, and largely in demand 
for making jelly, marmalade, cheese, and all 
manner of preserves. We grow this extensively 
all from seeds of the most distinct and valuable 
fruits. Select sorts follow, of which we consider 
a large majority of the trees will bear true to 
description, but this cannot be guaranteed in 
seedling stock. 
Sour. For general culinary purposes—jelly, pre¬ 
serves, etc. 
Table or Dessert Guavas. These are mostly sweet to 
subacid sorts suitable for eating out of hand and 
for table use. 
Calcutta Apple Guava. Foliage differs from the com¬ 
mon type and is highly fragrant. The fruit is 
small, yellow, and very acid and may be used 
alone or with sweet guavas for jelly-making. 
LITCHII [5] chinensis. Litchee Fruit. China. Sub¬ 
tropical. A tree of medium growth with dense, 
very handsome foliage. While the fruit of the 
ordinary kinds is of small size and mediocre, our 
stock is from the finest strain of large-fruited 
improved sorts, layered from fruiting trees. The 
fruit hangs in clusters, having a thin, roughened, 
tough skin-like rind, of a brilliant red color when 
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