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Identifier: ornamentaltreeso00rock (find matches)
Title: The ornamental trees of Hawaii
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962
Subjects: Trees--Hawaii.
Publisher: Honolulu: (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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The tree at the end of the yard bears fruit.Mr. Pablo (a Spaniard then living at the Mission) calls it inSpanish Algarroba. He knows it; the fruit is principally eaten intimes of famine. They grow in the provinces of Malaga and Valence,but this one is of a more delicate and less sweet species.* Father Reginald concludes: These quotations show that thelegend of the picture ( an illustration published with Father Regi-nalds article.âThe author.), saying that the tree was planted in1828 is true, as four years later it bore pods, evidently for the firsttime. Notice also the interest the natives were taking in the tree,and how they tried to propagate it by planting cuttings, naturally, asthey had no seeds as yet. * The writer would say that Mr. Pablo evidently had the St. Johns Bread, Cera-tonia siliqua, in mind, and when he says more delicate he evidently referred to theless robust habit and much finer leaves. The pods of St. Johns Bread are very sweetand quite palatable. Plate XXXVII.
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Saraca indica Linn.Sorrowiess Tree of India. Flowering branches. Leguminosae. 91 In the illustration published and herein referred to by FatherReginald, it is stated that the tree was introduced by Father Bache-lot in 1828, the seed having come from the Royal Gardens of Paris,France. Ceratonia siliqua, the St. Johns Bread, is cultivated o:iTantalus. Adenanthera pavonina L.Red Wood, Red Sandalwood, False Wiliwili. This so-called Wilhvili is a small tree reaching a height of fromfifteen to twenty-five feet and is bare for a short time during the3ear. Its leaves are bi-pinnate with six to ten pairs of leaflets to eachpinna, the former are ovate or oblong-elliptical, and glabrous; theflowers are borne in short racemes and are yellowish in color. Thelegume or pod is from four to twelve inches long, brown outside,golden yellow inside, linear, compressed and incurved; the seedsare scarlet, round and compressed. The leaves as well as the seeds are employed medicinally. Of theformer a decoctio

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