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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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these covered beds for nine months, after whichthey are ready for transplanting. Transplanting must be done carefully, so as not toinjure the roots. The plant is dug up by a special hoe-liketool, lifted up in the hand with as much soil as possible,placed upon crossed strips of banana fibers, which are takenup by the ends and wrapped and tied about the plant. Theplant is now carried to its new locality, placed in a hole inthe soil, the earth filled in about it, and finally the bananastrips are cut and drawn out. The transplanted clove plants are now carefully tendedand watered for about one year, but they are not shaded, asduring the first year of their existence. Usually many ofthe transplanted plants die, which makes replanting neces-sary. This great mortality, it is believed by some, mightbe reduced very materially by shading the recently trans-planted clove-trees for a time. The clove-tree may attain an age of from sixty to sev-enty years, and some have been noted which were ninety
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241 A. Floweri4. Pollen. 5. O COPYRIGHT 1900* BY A. UFORD, CHICAGO NUTMEG,n- branch. !. Pistil surrounded bv stamens. 2. Longitudinal section of same 3. Cross section of same3varv. 6. Section of same. 7-8. Mature fruit. 9. Nutme-covered with mace. lO.Bare nutme-. 11. Sectionalview. 12. Embryo; see also 11. SPICES, ETC. 113 years old and over. The average life of the plantationclove-trees is, however, perhaps not more than twenty years.The trees begin to yield in about five years after planting.The picking of the immature flowers with the red calyx isbegun in August and lasts for about four months. Fromtwo to four crops are harvested each year. Explanation of plate: A, flowering branch, nearly nat-ural size; 1, floral bud; 2, floral bud in longitudinal section;3, stamens; 4, pollen grains; 5, ovary in transverse section;6, fruit about natural size; 7, fruit in transverse section;8, embryo; 9, part of embryo. THE NUTMEG The Nutmeg is the spice obtained from a medium-sizedevergreen tree

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