Moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves.
1About the time the nutmegs fruited one clove tree flowered.
2The clove tree was originally confined to the five principal Molucca islands, and chiefly to Machean.
3A clove tree, well weeded and taken care of, will produce from five to twenty pounds.
4The flower buds of the clove tree are picked just before they open, and then dried for several days.
5The clove tree, though somewhat smaller than the nutmeg, is quite similar in appearance, and, if possible, even more graceful and beautiful.
6It had sifted through his fingers like sand, the price of one clove tree after another, till the whole grove was gone.
7The clove trees were covered with pink blossoms whose fragrance entered the city.
8At the same time he had fallen heir to a grove of clove trees; in short, he had been wealthy.
9In Singapore, about ten years ago, there were then about 15,000 clove trees planted out, a few of which only had come in bearing.
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