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-. P. O. Box 845 
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the rock and provides deep root runs. 
No record seems to have been 
kept of what was brought to the 
little settlement in its early days, 
but ornamental trees and shrubs 
.must. have come practically with the 
Today 
pages could be devoted to the trees 
-alone (instead of only a few words), 
- for from Burma, Australia, southern 
Asia, Africa, tropical America, etc., 
have come the superb specimens 
shading the wide streets. 
Superb Old Trees 
To mention but a few of the long- 
est established. Ficus religiosa, or 
Pee-pul tree, the sacred tree of In- 
dia, is one of the largest on the 
island, though possibly the palm for 
size and beauty goes to an enormous 
Ficus retusa (called locally the Al- 
exandrian or Spanish laurel) whose 
branches spread entirely across the 
street. The beautiful feathery Af- 
rican tamarind thrives, strangely 
enough, in the shallow soil, growing 
to 70 feet in some of the home lawns. 
There are many large specimens of 
the curious sandbox or monkey din- 
nerbell tree (Hura crepitans) whose 
trunks bristle with spines, and 
whose seed capsules, when ripe, ex- 
-plode with a loud noise. 
Another showy tree whose trunk 
and limbs are covered with count- 
less black thorns is Erythrina in- 
dica, the Lenten tree, with brilliant 
red 3-4-inch blossoms appearing 
profusely before the leaves, making 
a huge scarlet blotch on the land- 
scape. Pithecellobium dulce, the 
rain tree, has long twisted reddish 
pods opening to show the 4%- inch 
balls.of snowy white pulp covering 
the seeds. Spathodea campanulata 
is one of the most spectacular bloom- 
ers, with 6-inch orange flowers in 
15-inch clusters. Bauhinia, the or- 
chid tree, is a tropical cousin of our 
Judas-tree, showing it in the fo- 
-liage, and with orchid- like lavender 
or ‘white flowers in late winter. 
Gliricidia, whose cream and pinkish 
-javender pea-like flowers hang in 
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racemes like wisteria, blooms before 
the new leaves; Moringa moringa, 
the horseradish tree, with distin- 
guished pinnate foliage and clusters - 
of fragrant waxy blooms resembling 
horseradish in taste, furnishes flavor 
to Key West salads. And the ceiba, 
or Kapok tree, is a sensational mass 
of soft pink bloom up to the end of 
January, agricultural bulletins to 
the contrary, who list it as summer- 
blooming; while its great winged 
trunks are among arboreal curios- 
ities. 
In recent street developments, 
Schinus terebinthifolia, the Brazil- 
ian pepper (a close relative of the 
California variety), Casuarina equi- 
setifolia, Australian pine, and Swie- 
tenia mahagoni, mahogany tree, 
have been widely planted as shade 
trees. Just to list a few among the 
many strange specimens sounds like 
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randa; kigelia; Lucuma mammosa, 
and so on, ad infinitum. 
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Vines are superlative, from the 
delicate and fragrant jasmines, in- 
cluding the white, richly-fragrant 
night-blooming Cestrum nocturnum, 
to thunbergias in every shade of 
purple to blue, as well as the deli- 
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fragrans. The yellow allamanda; 
the great cream trumpets of Solan- 
dra guttata (the chalice flower) 
which seem out of all proportion 
