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Title: The American garden
Identifier: americangarden121891broo (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Horticulture; Gardening
Publisher: Brooklyn, N. Y. : (s. n. )
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534 THE PA PA IV. growing for its shapely form and ample, abundant and fine foliage, as well as for its fruit. But it should have a sheltered place in northern gardens, and good
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ground always. It grows well with us on Long Island, and the specimen in the Rural Grounds, which I have seen, is a handsome, broad-headed bush-tree with a splen- did growth of leaves and carrying a good deal of fruit. The leaves are obovate-lanceolate, nine or ten inches long by three or four inches wide, and light green above and pale on the under side. The flowers, which appear with the leaves in May, are about inch across, greenish, changing with age to brown, and solitary at the leaf joints of the previous year's young wood. The fruit looks like an almost cylindrical, very fleshy Wind- sor bean pod ; it is three to five inches long, oblong, rounded, somewhat falcate, and often misshapen from Average Size Leaf and Fruit of Papaw. A Cluster of Half-Grown Papaw Fruit. the imperfect development of some of its seeds. The unripe fruit is green, but when ripe the flesh is yellow and the skin dark brown ; it is then sweet and luscious to the taste, but it is with the papaw as it is with the persimmon—we cannot reasonably expect as good fruit in the north as may be had in the south. It is an inter- esting tree, and well suited to small grounds or to posi- tions near the dwelling." E. S. Carman.

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