. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. 328 ESSENTIALS OF BOTANY or more, and when well grown producing from one hun- dred to five hundred pounds of fruit a year. Successful attempts are now under way to introduce date culture into some of the hottest portions of the United States, and it is likely to be an important industry in central Arizona, the Colorado Desert in California, and several other arid or semi-arid areas. The Pineapple family furnishes only one valuable fruit, the pine- apple, grown especially in Florida, the West Indies, the Azores, and Hawaii. The Banana family furnishes, in
. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. 328 ESSENTIALS OF BOTANY or more, and when well grown producing from one hun- dred to five hundred pounds of fruit a year. Successful attempts are now under way to introduce date culture into some of the hottest portions of the United States, and it is likely to be an important industry in central Arizona, the Colorado Desert in California, and several other arid or semi-arid areas. The Pineapple family furnishes only one valuable fruit, the pine- apple, grown especially in Florida, the West Indies, the Azores, and Hawaii. The Banana family furnishes, in the shape of bananas, the main food of multitudes of the poorer inhab- itants of the tropics. The plant is herbaceous, though it sometimes reaches a height of forty feet, with leaves as much as ten feet long (Plate XIII). The familiar fruit (technically, a berry) has by long cultivation become seedless. It has a much higher nutritive value than most fruits and is rapidly coming into favor among us, the annual imports into the United States hav- ing increased from about 500,000 bunches in 1872 to some 40,000,000 bunches at present. A few bananas are grown in southern Florida and the delta portion of the j\Iississippi, but the main product comes from the West Indies and Central Fig. 228. A Coffee Twig, with Berries. (Reduced.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917. Boston, Ginn
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