Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Curtis, George William, 1824-1892, ed · New York, Leavitt & Allen · leaf 419
^ hope that this unique SouthAmerican tree, of most singular foliage, striking symmetry, and gi-gantic eatable fruit, will also take its place in our ornamental plan-tations, along with the cedar of Lebanon and the Deodar cedar,two of the grandest trees of the Asian world. … VII. A WORD IN FAVOR OF EVERGREENS. May, 1848. TT7HAT is the reason, said an intelligent EuroiDean liorticul-V Y turist to us lately, that the Americans employ so few ever-greens in their ornamental plantations ? Abroad, they are the treesmost sought after, most highly prized, and most valued in…
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