The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 12, 1947, Page 2

a New sane to some of Key wake Resale! charms’ tropical trees and flowers—seé William Meyets. This vig- R. in eg for LR peteg County, | Dig EF is- project, pubic or pri- official out his His in the Pe fnesd could ae i 4 ' 8 s ‘am i nf er aggro 6 a as -driving guide knows more! ‘and bushes*by"their Jim Farley does Dei eine: -them than a ks Meyers you begin to feel “Thoreau and a profestoi its. He goes into on. a fox hiint.; 5 pte, anes a Plea BO er ‘street, youf sar that you a have been iid bloom,” remarked Mr. Meyers, ‘From here on you si on the of your seat as the voluble . Meyers points out great ban- b trees. from the East Indies; 6f the American tropics; the im- has e kapok-producing Ceiba trees CON, Bree yh al takes all eet hie: Ai Ne, ormer| ent, now; prove his condi ae Another’ demonstrates Tee pene aes ig. stilt: “Thou sa en te i i he a@line, “a0dls bg f ot sponge. .offered ip remind- | ful of the time when sponge were, more plentiful. in Key West bot when the:pricés about one-sixth of mense Spanish Laurel from south- n Europe; the tamarind from a and the bréadfruit tree from nesia. Before leaving. Simonton, we leet the pomegranate tree from i poe ‘Asia, in the 900 block; its yellow to take. .credis, for of gona shining in the sun. Turning United street, we sce the pet vine, whose yellow horn- d flowers explain its name. fact, it is often called the an- At’ ‘Masti¢ Park, the restless Mr. syer's show !us the sugar apple thé ‘great shady sapodillas, ithe! Key Time, a pomegranate, the | aré mastic tree and the tamarind. mastic, we learn, is a‘ hard, lese-grained wood, excellent for ship-building, which may explain how it got to Key West. Its resin is good for astringents, and aro- matics. % Tamarind Explained. ‘Mie itamarind.' with its count- pod-like fruit, supplies the icé,. Mr, Meyers tells us, which ‘makes pickles yellow. It also makes excellent ice cream and’ laxative tamarind-ade. In ‘India, both the leaves and flowers are eaten; they are also used for dyeing—not a very appetizing ‘thought. The seeds are cooked and eaten or ground into meal. s Taking a handful of seeds which ind sometime, we ice ,qream «parlor trapieal fpuit flav- byt,learned that ind, soursop and. sapo- alla flavors will not be out for \ much ‘a pity it is not, to ig: }maost of. which are ¢ Spievind oft trees is en- couraged and the attention of the pi Peplic is, directed’ to the ‘importante of forests. The, day pecurs at differ- ent times ity. various States, in the Spring and in the Fall of e: year. However, the first formal observance of the day as a time for planting trees occurred on April 10, 1872, Nebraska, and the Legislature, in 1885, fixed the date on. April 22, % is important that the r county, B, rues 4 bi a tance of adequate forest Millions of actes of waste ny} land rae be reclainted by of trees. which, a'while yet. Resuming our journey, we pass- ed great displays of pink and pur- ple bougainvillaea. Almost every t had them. Scarlet hibiscus ‘a}waved. from many. a front yard * land at a vacant lot we picked|pink oleander. Mother Nature has over 60¢-varieties.of hibiseus, our guide told) us, ‘most of? whith: art found in Key West. Proceeding up uth streét; he pointed out neat- ly. trimmed hedges of the lumin- escent croton—one of 60 varieties, also found here. & ‘Key. West is never without 20 different types of flowers int and it was’ easy to believe. He was pointing to. white and ‘purple periwinkle, nodding in friendly |} fashion in a neat front yard. Passing: on, “we féund’ that the cacti in’ Key’ West which bear the: famous night-blooming Ceres) have. hundreds of blooms apiece, | whereas those’ in) the desert: have only -one.. Two of the best of these bearers of nocturnal. beauty are one on Duval street near the. Strand Theatre and the. other on {the Edwin Trevor property on Di- vision street. Small seams, which look like sewing. stitches. all the way. up. the; cactus, are actually }, the spots where the flowers blos- som out like water lilies, with} yellow stamens, but only ,afier sundown. and at certain times of the year, “Holly” Actually Pepper. B Next .we- learned that, a_red- bervied, bush, which we had imag- ined was Christmas holly last De- cember, was actually Brazilian pepper. A’ dead ringer for holly, it is used to decorate homes for the Yuletide. Thoselittle redvbere ries are: really pepper—and. hot pepper at that. Mr: Meyers also put us argaht Honors ‘on something else. He asked what we thought caused the palm trees in front of Casa Marina hotel ;to assume such grotesque angles. We answered. quickly, “It must be the wind,” but our guide just laughed. “No,” he said, ‘it all de- pends, on the fertile eye of -the, cocoanuts. Each three eyes and the palm leans in Key West School of Art, the direction most of the eyes are the visitors to the rent pointing. A cocoanut palm will groups of students" ‘work, ex- bear once for every day in the plained the method and: tech. year. See those tiny ones right nique of each medium and the next to those full grown, ripe ages of students. More than. 50) ones,” | pictures in off, water color, esgeed § Suill another Sh oie Property | and cl of the palm was; £40 $9 the | tak whe\ our guide’ minded us that! a the tree must have bpaghish séit: Tovar, water to live hee will send os hed Art E. Judger- Give! to Five Approximately 200 persons. ins } terested in art, uttended the- first éxhibit. of students’ work at the Key West ‘School of » Art, 821 , Whitehead street, yesterday. af-, ternoon, from: 1 to. 5 efcloek. roots down hundrééig find it. At the project at Rest HE aa showed us the, full- oat recently transplan’ there!’ “ae ped up on three. sides by paper: poles, the trees are gradually: ting a foothold Pipite¢ roel coral-like ground. The handsome;sago vinaich graces the yards of so many Key! West residences, we found? j is no. Plorer’ ap cigil mere ornament. “In the East In-,Chicag& 67 Seong : dies, India and Malaysia, where! it is cultivated, the tree yields dry, starch from its trunk which is, used for puddings and to stiffen! cooking mixtures. Most people’ swear teat ats uyou touch a H (RREO iva were, ma Marfiaed; water colors; (aketeectionn) pCanl Emans; pastels, Miss Dian Ar- Y cher; . charagterss Neely. | Lincoln Ellew. palm leaf, the leaf will wither, and die. n Division street and again val jwas the tree which produced. the, Bisa SEs Radio Hams” to Aid ied Nations almost priceless kapok, which was, ‘needed so badly during the wag ‘that finally milkweed and cattails were used in its place. Kapok: is. ithe soft, buoyant feathery ma- rial obtained from the ing bags. Unforgetiabte Species A list of eaet of the trees, vines, bushes and flowers on Mr. Mey- fers’ winding route would be jal jmost as long as‘ each tree ‘to end but some of the |forgettable spebies still Thete’s the dScotchmap’s pock- ‘the flower _ that never, ‘the papaya “trees, with: ‘their high clusters of green mek {ons so full of concentrated bepsin ‘that tough meat hung in the tree becomes cocoanut ‘has' Miss B. Betty, principal of the ra ie ‘Harris School, the distinctive| ceiba tree! catches. the eye. This 3; ae” MoNnon yi Sout. ceibai \tree’s seed-pod and which is used } ie stuff life presagvers and sleep-; Is tenderized overnight; |. Final re plication for a his ear ty A.D. cre ee tac the al ie therein will Bee r ished a we nie tar tou weeks paper cer published pee in ene Chinn of they ssi 1 ORDERED thin 10th + tit clerk FETS. Monroe € By: (ad) Kathi HLAN B. CLEA Oe FOr gy 12-18-26; Jum 2, 1947 Py im oma JAMES reat! Plaincite, ORDER TO: RATHER: Camden, New Jersey. . New Jersey. You are hereby required to ap. “pear to the Bill of € divorce in the above on or before the 1ith mW is Order he publi ‘once @ week for far e | weeks. in Phe Key West Citizen, a Key Wese ae in the Chy of Clerk of the sent Soe. bbre evidenee tof’ be entered ; Ross c SAWYER, bove Court. the Al By: (sd) ‘Rathieen Xo age, , SLavavrs Jemician Tem \ pay MOND GROVER Plaintiff, fl ANN MACAU LEY KELLER, Defendant. ORDER OF PUBLIC. TO: Ann Macauley Keller, Fremont Street, New London, You are hereby pear to the Bill ied against you in the above styled eause on’ or before the 9th day af! June. A.D. 1947, otherwine the at-} texations contained therein wilt he a NE agtenm ORDERED at Key) Went, Florida, thia ara day of May. | ett Court Seb ic IN PME ne ar p4 TH ‘ane Ne. 10-1 JOHN M. CHRISTI ——e justifiable, Fin a wan Jail add pet the wealth of indi- nee e offviduals and the nation. fe Dr. M or oi Hernande Su-[ pervielle, late Mayor of Ha- ECKNER IN U: S& Indicating something of revival of interest in Hghter-}: vee t coonruction Dr. whose The economic question of ithe hour is whether prices will come down fast enough to. avert. ygeneion- RELWE NTS igen ad seppelin® spanned two world: gruntied natives. will presumably the Goodyear ae poratian the t e by means the constvucs : tion of supe! not, remains seeres to be unable to peace now that the Japanese are out of China. « r-dirigibles, opp The Steph, 3g vet: He seems that the Army ‘Frangport Command estab- |. lished a. base in Liberia.dur- war, At the end 4 Marck and eut san wate lines six. times. Baiaging a world-wide amateur radio network of more than 100,000 stations inte the service of peace, the International Amateur Radio Union, and the United Nations have signed an agreement to promote quiek communication of U.N. material everywhere. Here U.N. As- sistant Secretary-General Benjamin Cohen (lefi) and George W. Ballay, president of the International Amateur Radio Union, put their See a e eaemiod Some) asnenqeent any. v. Headquarters. aos | \ VEGETABLES, FRUITS, NUTS DAIRY { Probucts | ‘15 Cents { ; 18 cent: , MISCELLANEOUS > fs esilt A 6088" An AP Newsfectures Pictograph the appropriately named tish-tail Ne “ palms—the only three inthe Ynit- eee RANCE Salluaeae ed States, according to our guide; | NOTICE REQUINENG a jthe lovely stephanitis, the trop-} ro: Temperance Christian, ical twining: vine whose fragrant Hite Genee ay white flowers are preferred by> you are hereby notl jmany brides to orange blossoms ole Commmlaiat: tor (the name comes from Greek, } Christian in, the “abo meaning, “fit for a crown”). cause and you are hereby reauired The magnificent Spanish Laurel | {9 ‘ie, * a jon the First Methodist Church} before the sth ant corner with its picturesque moss} bin'of campinine jis another example of what, in-; confessed by nw: Joyce Kilmer. Then. overf,,.0'% netic in Windsor lane is the strange} tive weeks Lenten tree, gnarléd gnd some-}(!™% what gaunt, which @rops its} Florida. leaves during Lent bears 3 end" any rgd jblood-red flower which Saally. Ss ‘falls off about Easter time, . yslt , liam Meyers says he obgerved ee ‘Ry! mo trareneet Lenten tree in particular this year i and, sure enough,” when Lent es “hate came, the leaves drépped off jout came the blaod-red flower. About Easter it withered and dropped. | And so we concluded.our trip, Grocer much better acquainted: with Key pa West than we had been- two hours] jearlier. Our gufde promised to take us again. “You've only seen} AMERICAN half of the tropical trees ang; and CUBAN plants in Key West,” KE a newspaper “Published | West, Monroe ¥. | « for Complainant. may 5-12-19-26; jun 3, 1947) we departed.