Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-09-02
LORA OF THIS VALLEY
FORMS UNIQUE A
rANlsTs FIND PECULIAR CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND RICH SOIL OF
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY PRODUCE WONDERFUL GR0wTH-FA-
v0Rs TEXAS BOTANICAL GARDENS.

grown IN every door yard in Texas. II
grows rapidly from the seed and while
with ~. II can be treated a. 4 %pcrcnni
al. further north. il would have fo be-
grown ~ an annual.
There j. 4 species ~ wild amarylls
with a bulb about an inch ia diameter
which like many arid climate plants. will
stand j total driving out Of the soil ANA
then when the rains rome. IL blossoms
abundantiy with a lovely and fragrant
white blossom. It, true name j. Cooper.
10 redumrulata and il should have value
IN crossing with other amarvllis to get
the pure white amarylliS..
There j. 4 shrub which the MrNicanS
call Ccncza. their name for ashes be-
cause Of It's leaves which are a lovely
ashv white and il bears abundant flow
ers Of a tender lilac. Its name j. Pod.
iphNllum Tcxacannm. II has spread all
over the cleared and semi cleared land
on The second lift. III planted against
II Hack ground Of darker leaves. 10 bring
out its delicacy. il il wonderfully beau
tifnl. II l. hard 10 transplant because
like most arid climate plants. il has a
tap-root going deep into the soil for
moisture. Blu IL seeds we'll. | am told
and will grew from the seed. Further
1t can be- shcarcd like privct and will
make a ma>sv wall OF its soft. white foil.
aye. ! have little doubt If some one
tried tranSplanting. a. Mr.. Stockwell
has his oaks. bv cutting its tap root "A
month or 80 before il could easily be
tranSplanted.
Then there j. the Retama known "a
The nursery trade a. ParkinSonia. =
strikingly lovely small tree with leaves
4 foot anil a half long and Il quarter ~
an inch wide and il j. covered with deli.
cate yellow flowers Ia the spring. Ii j.
hardy over most of Texas.
And the Anacuita whose foliage is
a dark. %glaurus green on top and whit
i>h underneath. ID flowers abundantly
with u large white flower followed ~
a nut which gives il a common name of
the Texas Olive though il j. no relation
OF the olive. This grows to a large tree:
| have seen them with a spread Of thir.
~ or forty feet.
Then there u our mesquite which
When cared for a little j. much finer
than the Peruvian pepper TREE grown all
over california aud nmlik c il H. not sub
iect 10 root rot. Somc entcrprising gen.
tlcmcn has been selling the mesquite at
:. each under the alluring name Of the
.Algorol,a.
II could 20 on with the ebony. hui.
Sache AMI a number Of others. but enough
has been given tu show something ~
the variety and unukualncSS If our flo
ri. II IN arhoretum were started la
Texas anywhere near enough ia the Rio
.Grandc Valley a. grow most of IT. to
n. ! ann confident that such growth and
it, careful study. would develop man,
plants ~ great value. Further II IL IN,
opinion that IL this was dome. the time
would he short, when those in charge
would see the nrtc>sit, of starting y
branch arhnrrtum down IN the VALLEY
where the native flora could be- grown
and studied thoroughly on the spot.
For this cause. ! an heartily advp
eating the starting Of an arhorcttnn anil
] fell confident that the best posted pro
pie in the VALLEY will also advocate Il
branch one Ia the VALLEY and standing
read. 4" give it full local support.