Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . ge a part in the economic development of thecountry that I shall treat of it at length later; thepineapple, cultivated in a haphazard way, still at-tains so high an order of excellence that Tabogapines are the standard for lusciousness; the mango,which grows in clusters so dense that the very treesbend under their weight, but for which as yet littlemarket has been found, as they require an acquiredtaste; the mamei, hard to ship and difficult to eatbecause of its construction but withal a toothsomefruit; the paypaya, a melon not unlike our canta-lo
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . ge a part in the economic development of thecountry that I shall treat of it at length later; thepineapple, cultivated in a haphazard way, still at-tains so high an order of excellence that Tabogapines are the standard for lusciousness; the mango,which grows in clusters so dense that the very treesbend under their weight, but for which as yet littlemarket has been found, as they require an acquiredtaste; the mamei, hard to ship and difficult to eatbecause of its construction but withal a toothsomefruit; the paypaya, a melon not unlike our canta-loupe which has the eccentricity of growing on trees;the sapodillo, a fruit of excellent flavor tasting notunlike a ripe persimmon, but containing no cultivation all of these fruits could be grownin great quantities in all parts of the RepubUc, butto give them any economic importance some specialarrangement for their regular and speedy marketingwould have to be made, as with the banana, mostof them being by nature extremely PINEAPPLES IN THE FIELD RUBBER AND COCOANUTS OFFER POSSIBILITIES 285
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