The guava is grown cultivation as a dooryard plant in southern Florida, both for its fruit and as an ornamental, and occurs there as an escape from cultivation. Guavas are grown cultivation commercially on a minor scale in southern Florida.
The strawberry guava (P. cattleyantim) is also grown cultivation for ornament and for its small red edible fruit, which has a strawberrylike flavor.
Job's tears (Coix Lacryma-Jobi) is a close relative of corn and can grow to 4 feet. Since ancient times this grass has been in cultivation as an especially sweet-tasting cereal flour but it also has the distinction of being the oldest ornamental grass in cultivation—it was grown cultivation in the fourteenth century in monastery gardens. The seeds fall readily from the plant at maturity and are extremely hard, colored with streaks of gray and black on white.
Cultivation.—Raspberries grow best in cool temperate areas in soils that are fertile, moist and well drained. They may be grown cultivation in solic rows or hedgerows or in individual hills. Plant: grown cultivation in hedgerows are spaced from 2.5 to i feet apart in rows 6 to 10 feet apart. Hill-systen plants are spaced from 5 to 6 feet apart in botl directions. Planting is best accomplished in th< very early spring while the new plants are dor mant. To maintain high production fertilizei must be applied annually. Bigger yields of largei berries have been associated with the use o: straw or similar mulches.
The guava is grown cultivation as a dooryard plant in southern Florida, both for its fruit and as an ornamental, and occurs there as an escape from cultivation. Guavas are grown cultivation commercially on a minor scale in southern Florida.
The strawberry guava (P. cattleyantim) is also grown cultivation for ornament and for its small red edible fruit, which has a strawberrylike flavor.