*WILD ROSE APPLE (Eugenia den- 
siflora). Of the 750 kinds of Eugenia 
trees, this Malayan evergreen is perhaps 
the most beautiful in flower. It is usually 
a slender tree to 50 feet, flowering at 12 
feet but occasionally with bushy crown 
and massive trunk, It bears 2-inch white 
or pink flowers in dense heads to 6 inches 
wide at the ends of the drooping branches. 
Corner says this species with its variety 
angustifolia is one of the most beau- 
tiful flowering Eugenias and “it fully de- 
serves to be brought into cultivation.” The 
tree is common in Malaya on sandy and 
rocky shores, but this is its first introduc- 
tion to the United States. 
EUGENIA GRANDIS 
*SEA APPLE (Eugenia grandis). 
This vigorous upright handsome evergreen 
tree to 80 feet was brought to Florida in 
1926 by Dr. David Fairchild from the 
Singapore Botanic Garden, It is much 
planted in Malaya as an avenue tree and 
its dense and glossy deep green foliage 
makes it exceptionally handsome. The 1 
to 1%-inch white ball flowers come in 
dense clusters to 6 inches wide at the 
branch tips, and the tree covered with its 
heavy mantle of white bloom is very 
showy. 
GRUMICHAMA (Eugenia dombeyi). 
This favorite Brazilian fruit tree makes a 
splendid evergreen ornamental to 20 feet 
and in May bears a big crop of berries, 
first green, then red, then black that look 
like over-sized gooseberries and taste like 
huckleberries. The flowers are not 
showy. 
FERETIA (F. canthoides). A bushy 
shrub, usually a few feet high, from trop- 
ical Africa, with sweetly-scented, clus- 
tered creamy flowers abundant on short 
side branches, usually while leafless. It 
belongs to the Ixora family. 
GREYIA 
GREYIA (G._ sutherlandi). Small 
South African tree of rather irregular 
growth that blooms as a small plant. Lady 
Rockley wrote: “Perhaps the most unusual 
shrub in Natal. It is remarkably beautiful. 
The stems are gnarled and woody, the 
leaves simple and not very numerous, but 
the flowers, which are full out in October, 
are wonderful. They have five glowing 
crimson petals more than an inch across 
clustered together round the stem, so that 
the spike measures about 6 inches long 
and 9 inches round, and the red stamens 
with their yellow pollen-dust protrude be- 
yond the solid mass of flower. They grow 
among rocks in the midland and moun- 
tainous parts of Natal.” Sarah Coombs 
calls Greyia “Very handsome” and _ con- 
tinues: “It has been grown in California, 
and requires full sunlight, thorough ripen- 
ing of the wood, and a season of rest be- 
fore flowering. I have seen it growing 
best in a sandy loam. It could be grown 
under glass and would be an attractive 
sight anywhere in spite of its uncompro- 
mising stiff habit and _ its woody stalks 
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