TAMARIND AVENUE. 
An avenue of Tamarind trees {Tamarindus indica) in the 
Quinta da Boa Vista at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pew tropi- 
cal trees are better adapted to street and avenue planting 
than the tamarind, with its delicate, light green foliage 
and graceful habit. Its fruit, a pod three or four inches 
in length, containing a brown, acid pulp, is widely used 
in tropical countries for the preparation of cooling 
drinks. While too tender for' any but the warmest regions 
of the United States, it is thought that it might be uti- 
lized to advantage in south Florida where it grows well 
for the purpose here illustrated. 
