. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . a rich and slightly acid arillus (the outer coat of aseed lightly attached to it), which is the part eaten. The Negro Peach, or Edible Peach. The tree on which the negro peach is produced isvery handsome, with lanceolate leaves, resemblingthose of the orange. The flowers are white, andgrow closely clustered in little round heads, likethose of the American button-wood, so common inshrubberies. The tree has flowered in the gardensof the Horticultural Society, but has not borne fruitin this country. T
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . a rich and slightly acid arillus (the outer coat of aseed lightly attached to it), which is the part eaten. The Negro Peach, or Edible Peach. The tree on which the negro peach is produced isvery handsome, with lanceolate leaves, resemblingthose of the orange. The flowers are white, andgrow closely clustered in little round heads, likethose of the American button-wood, so common inshrubberies. The tree has flowered in the gardensof the Horticultural Society, but has not borne fruitin this country. The fruit is about the size of anordinarj peach, but very different in colour and qua-lities. Externally and internally it is brown, of vary-ing shades: its form is irregular, and the wholesurface covered with tubercles. About one-third ofthe diameter in the centre consists of a verv firm andsomewhat dry pulp, of a flavour resembling an that and the rind, the pulp is of softer con-sistency, full of seeds and fibres, and has a flavourresembling the strawbeny. MONKEYS BREAD, 375. Monkeys Bread—Adansonia digitata. This tree is a native of the western coast of Africa,and also of Egypt. In the former country it is de-scribed by Adanson as being a tree of large dimen-sions and singular economy. The trunks were abouttwelve or fourteen feet high, but of the vast circum-ference of sixty or seventy feet. The lateral brancheswere forty or fifty feet long, of the thickness of agreat tree, and with their remote branches touchingthe ground; while some of the roots that had beenlaid bare were upwards of a hundred feet long, andeven then were not exposed for their whole fruit is from nine to twelve inches long, andabout four in diameter, of a brownish colour, andrather pointed toward the extremities. The pulp isa little farinaceous, mixed with fibres: when recent,it has a very refreshing, acid taste; and eaten withsugar, it is both pleasant and wholesome. It retainsit
Size: 1805px × 1384px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorsoc, bookcentury1800, bookiddescriptionhisto00sociuoft
