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Title: The ornamental trees of Hawaii
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962
Subjects: Trees--Hawaii.
Publisher: Honolulu: (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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about four grains. It is a very common tree in and about Honolulu but cannot beconsidered as ornamental save for the red seeds which are sold inHonolulu curio stores as wiliwili necklaces. The wood is hard, close grained, the heartwood red, durable andstrong. In India a dye is prepared from the wood of this tree butits chief use is as a substitute for the real red sandalwood. The tim-ber is used for housebuilding and cabinet making in India where thetree grows to a considerable size. It is often confounded with the true red Sandalwood (Ptero-carpus Santalinus) which yields the red sandalwood of commerce.Both species, however, have really nothing in common with the fra-grant Sandalwood. It is a native of India and Burmah, but has been in cultivation inmany tropical countries. Saraca indica L. ASOKA OR SORROW-LESS TREE OF INDIA. Plate XXXVII. This rather small tree is a native of Central and Eastern Hima-laya, Bengal, South India and occurs in Kumaon in which latter place Plate XXXVIII.
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Trachylobium verrucosum Lam.Copal Tree. Fruiting specimen. Leguminosae. 93 it grows to an elevation of two thousand feet. It is now distributedall over India and is cultivated in many tropical countries but isindigenous in Eastern Bengal. It is an exceedingly handsome objectwhen in full blossom and reminds one somewhat of the Ixora. Theflowers are of a coral-red and arranged in large globose heads inthe axils as well as at the ends of the branches; the leaves havealmost no leaf-stalk, are leathery, oblong in outline and entire. The bark of this tree is much used by the natives of India formedicinal purposes, as it contains a large proportion of gallic acid.The Asoka is one of the most sacred trees of the Hindus, who areordered to worship it on a certain day in the year. The flowers,which are quite aromatic, are much used in temple decoration. Thetree stands for the symbol of love and is dedicated to the IndianGod of Love. The Asoka is also held sacred by the Burmese, whobelieve that B

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