. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 13. Mango Fruit May be Bought Anywhere in Haiti at Ten for One Cent. The flowers are small, white tinged with pink or yellow, and, like the leaves, have a resinous smell. The fruit is a berried drupe more or less kidney-shaped; the flesh is soft and pulpy, sometimes stringy, as in the variety called turpentine, sweet, luscious, and nutritious. While the wood is used in India for a great variety of purposes, such as tea boxes, window frames, and, in stained condition, to imitate toon or cedar, the value of the tree lies more in the fruit than it does in the wo
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 13. Mango Fruit May be Bought Anywhere in Haiti at Ten for One Cent. The flowers are small, white tinged with pink or yellow, and, like the leaves, have a resinous smell. The fruit is a berried drupe more or less kidney-shaped; the flesh is soft and pulpy, sometimes stringy, as in the variety called turpentine, sweet, luscious, and nutritious. While the wood is used in India for a great variety of purposes, such as tea boxes, window frames, and, in stained condition, to imitate toon or cedar, the value of the tree lies more in the fruit than it does in the wood. In the unripe state the fruit is green, but when it comes to maturity it is of various colors; one variety resembles a peach in color, another is like the green gage, another is yellow, and still others are red. They are remotely pear-shaped and have a very smooth skin. The pulp is very juicy and in a manner resembles a ripe clingstone peach. The large kidney-shaped seed inclosed in a hard leathery case has numerous peculiar string- like fibrous bundles extending from the surface of the drupe to the place of the attach- ment of the fruit to the twig. There are, however, a number of improved varieties which are without these objectionable shreds imbedded in the pulp, and these form a regular article of trade and some reach the northern markets. The mango may be regarded as the mainstay of the colored population in the West Indies when the fruit is in season, which is from April to September. The negroes eat little else and provision merchants in the West Indian towns say that there is no demand for wheat flour in the rural districts during the mango season, which shows to what extent the natives are depending on the mango for subsistence. The colored children eat mangoes before they can walk, and many children eat little else for weeks at a time. Men, women and children eat them whenever they are hungry, and to the northern travelers in the tropics, it would seem that all th
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