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to the little porches which they com-. 
pletely envelope; the bougainvilleas 
in all colors. Pandorea ricasoliana, 
with its clusters of great widely- 
flaring, fluted clear pink cups, heav- 
ily spotted with deeper tones of the 
same color, is used as a high climb- 
er, or trained low over stone walls 
giving the effect of a pink hedge. 
Monstera deliciosa, or ceriman, that 
giant among tropical vines, with its 
unbelievable 18-inch white “calla 
lily” blooms, its huge fruit and the 
great leaves over a yard across, 
climbs high into a 40-foot tree, or 
up the side of a house. A cassia 
(named nodosa by local authority) 
is a climbing member of the ubiqui- 
tous cassia family, and spreads gold- 
en sheets of bloom wherever it gets 
a foothold, even to adorning the 
stone ruins of the deserted tobacco 
factories. 
Flowering Shrubs—Many, Beautiful 
Flowering shrubs are bewildering 
in quantity, variety and beauty. Hi- 
biscus, in many tones are freely used 
as hedge plants. Caesalpina pul- 
cherrima, commonly called dwarf 
poinciana, with lovely spidery flow- 
ers in clear yellow, orange and or- 
ange crimson, is no more a respecter 
of persons than is its summer-bloom- 
ing cousin, the royal poinciana, the 
“Queen of the Tropics,” for it is 
found everywhere, down to the most 
tumbledown shanty. Tecomaria 
capensis, a glorious orange-crimson 
tropical member of the Bignoniaceae, 
also screens porches of rich and poor 
alike. What is locally known as 
“candle bush,” with upright stalks 
of curious fat closed yellow blooms 
(and hinted at as a senecio) is one of 
the arresting beauties frequently 
found. Beleperone, the “shrimp flow- 
er,’ adorns shanty yards. Browallia 
speciosa major is almost a weed. 
Kalanchoe tubiflora (not listed in 
Bailey), certainly one of the most 
beautiful of the Crassulaceae, is as 
omnipresent, and although only 2-3 
feet tall in the open, shoots to 5-6 
feet growing on a shady bank at 
the Botanical Gardens. 
All in®all, Key West is a paradise 
for the horticulturist as it is for the 
artists, writers, winter colonists, 
fishermen, etc. Those who look for 
the blare of night life and the Neon 
signs of Miami and the Beach will 
find little to draw them, but the 
horticultural visitor with a compre- 
hending viewpoint can fill hours and 
days in exploration and pure enjoy- 
ment, and can have all the thrills 
of discovery that come with the find 
of each new, unidentifiable tropical 
plant. 
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