Bourreria ovata Miers

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SjDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1934. J
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BABE TREES IN MIAMI , |
ths Editor of the Miami Daily News:	'	|
your edition of Peltr. 21 there Is an*?'
«'telling of the cenâus of plaht life ‘
taken in Matheson Hammock paTk. j
?Stated that A. H. Gilbert*.,.who is |
_	the census, has fodhd a gtoup*of ]
dtre trees, Bçurreria ovata, of tbie
g back” family, never before found
the mainland.	>
There are several of these^treea in
Simpson park* and probably others in
Brickell hammock, of *which Simpson
park was a part until a few years ago,
When the city bought it for a park. These
.trees have not been Introduced into
£ Simpson park, but are a part of the orig-
inal forest.
{' In my own garden I have seedlings
ipktnts of Bourreria ovata grown from
seed from Simpson park.	;
Sargent in his Manual Of The Trees
Of North America, gives the distribution
of this tree as, “Florida, Coconut Grove
(Miss Rodham), and on the southern
keys? common; on the Bahama islands
and many of the Antilles.”
|t~ may be interesting to note that
  Olivia Rodham^. referred to by Sar-
gent, spent many winters in Coconut
Grove 25 or more years ago. She was
tructor in botany at Swarthmore
and it was she who discovered
Misantica triahdra in Brickell
woods* at that time the only tree of this
species in the United States.
, This choice tree, a member of the lau-
rel family, was lost when the James
Bearing estate was developed and a
roadway cut as an extension of S. Miami
The -tree was afterward found in
center paffkway of thê new street
is there today.
CONSTANCE EVANS SWANSON,
/-	. 2645 South Bayshore drive.
Miami, Fla., Feb. 23, 19S4.
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