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Title: Descriptive catalogue and price list : tropical and semi-tropical, fruit trees, palms, ornamental plants, orchids and greenhouse plants
Identifier: descriptivecata1891seve_0 (find matches)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Seven Oaks Nurseries; Hoyt, R. D; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical crops Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Bay View, F. L. : Seven Oaks Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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TROPICAL FRUIT TREES AND PLANTS. TAMARIND. (Tamarindus Jndica.) A tree with delicate, acacia-like foliage, producing pods from six to eight inches in length, which enclose with the seed an acid pulp , this, when preserved in sugar, forms the basis of the drink known as "ta- marind water ;" trees were in bearing here previous to the freeze, and it will stand quite severe frosts without injury ; is valuable as an ornament as well as for its fruit, the tree attaining an ultimate height of 25 to 30 feet, and becoming very liandsome as it develops. The fruit or pods are of considerable use in medicine in some countries, in addition to their use for producing "tamarind water." 25 cents each ; five for $1. TROPICAL ALMOND. ^ ( Terminalia catappa.) "With its flat stages of large smooth leaves and oily edible seeds in an almond-like husk, is not an almond at all, or any kin thereto ; is has been named, as so many West India plants have, after some known plant to which it bore a likeness, and intro- duced hither, and indeed to all shores from Cuba to Guiana, from the East Indies, through Arabia and tropical Africa, having begun its journey in the pocket of some Portugutse follower of Vasco de Gama."—Kingsley. Common in Key West, and was growing here previous to the freeze ; promises well. 50 cents each. COLLECTIONS OF TROPICAL FRUIT PLANTS, OUR SELECTION. Sil. Twelve distinct species, $2.25. II. Xweiity-five species and varieties, $9. III. One liundred plants in ten species, $22.50. These ivill consist of small plants free by mail, or large ones by express at purchasers expense.
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SUGAR-APPLE. (See page 6.)

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