feet which T. B. McClelland, former director of the government’s ex- 
perimental grounds at Chapman Field, once told me he sometimes 
thought was the most beautiful flowering tree in that garden. E. 
grisebachi. A stiff, round-topped tree from Cuba, blooming when 
bare of leaves, of which David Sturrock says: “The terminal panicles 
of large double scarlet flowers make it well worth a special effort for 
southern Florida; it grows well on the dry soils of Cuba.” I can 
supply at least 12 other Erythrinas for the specialists. 
BAUHINIA GALPINI. This is a semi-evergreen from South 
Africa, really a scrambling shrub rather than a tree, and if allowed 
to “bush up” it will make an enormous cluster in the yard, about 6 
feet high and simply covered with the reddest red “orchid” flowers 
you have ever seen. It can be grown as a vine and is often espaliered 
on the side on a building. The flowers are very beautiful. The plant 
should be put in the hottest, sunniest location available. 
BAUHINIA TRIANDRA._ This small tree has the loveliest 
fragrant rose-red flowers of any I have seen, and the mature tree in 
my yard is beautiful all through the month of November with its 
continuing bloom. 
DELONIX REGIA. (Caesalpinieae). FLAmMBoyantT. This most 
gorgeous of our flowering tropical trees is offered here only in the 
form of two varieties: (1) a salmon-flowered kind raised from seed 
from the Harvard Botanical Garden in Cuba and said to be very 
fine; (2) A double-flowered form grown from seed received from 
Commander R. C. Parker in the South Pacific with the note: “Double 
blossom. Red and pink color. The flower color can be governed by 
adding certain color pigments to the ground when the trees are 
young.” This is my No. 1022. 
SPATHODEA CAMPANULATA. (Bignoniaceae). The so-called 
“African tulip” tree is becoming very popular in Florida because of 
its spectacular orange-red flowers and because it blooms several times 
a year. Its correct common name is BELL FLAMBEAUTREE, but in In- 
dia it is called “Flame Tree” or “Fountain Tree.” I have raised seedlings 
from my own trees as well as from seed received direct from Africa. 
The conspicuous flowers, well suited to Florida because they appear 
in mid-winter when visiting tourists are here, the medium height, the 
attractive dark green foliage, the absence of aggressive roots, all con- 
tribute to making it an ideal street or parkway tree. It seems to 
thrive anywhere, stands dryness well, and although often cut to the 
ground by our winter cold snaps in Florida, springs up immediately 
from the roots, usually with two or three trunks, and will bloom again 
the same year. Ida Colthurst in her book “Familiar Flowering Trees 
in India,” compares the shape of the flowers to the old pictured Roman 
lamps “so that when the tree is in full bloom it appears to flash and 
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