. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . The Anchovy Pear—Grias cauliflora. The Anchovy pear is a fruit also much esteemedin the West Indies, of which islands it is a tree on which it grows is tall, upright, and hand-some ; rising to the height of about fifty feet, withleaves two or three feet long. It bears large whitishflowers, that come from the stem ; and these are fol-lowed by the fruit, which is of considerable size,brownish, having a kind of pulp over a single ovalkernel. The fruit very much resembles the mangoin taste ;
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . The Anchovy Pear—Grias cauliflora. The Anchovy pear is a fruit also much esteemedin the West Indies, of which islands it is a tree on which it grows is tall, upright, and hand-some ; rising to the height of about fifty feet, withleaves two or three feet long. It bears large whitishflowers, that come from the stem ; and these are fol-lowed by the fruit, which is of considerable size,brownish, having a kind of pulp over a single ovalkernel. The fruit very much resembles the mangoin taste ; and, like that, it is often made into picklesbefore it is ripe. The tree grows in the moist partsof Jamaica, and other places of the West Indies;where, in addition to the value of its fruit, it is ahighly ornamental tree. It may be reared in England,by the joint effects of bark and the heat of a stove,as is done with the pine-apple In the West Indies •2 h 2 384 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. it grows readily from the kernel, and is often culti-vated in The CisTAUD Apple—Anona mxtricata-^Anonasquamosa. Ten or twelve species of the custard-apple areenumerated. They are natives of the tropical partsof Africa, Asia, and America; but the better sortsare more abundant in the latter part of the globe. The Sour sop, rough custard-apple (^Anona niuri-cata), is a middle-sized tree, growing abundantly onthe savannahs in Jamaica ; and bearing a large ovalfruit of a greenish yellow colour, covered with smallknobs on the outside, and containing a white pulp,having a flavour compounded of sweet and acid,and very cooling and agreeable. It is, however, toocommon to be much esteemed by the wealthier peo-ple, though it is much sought after and relished bythe negroes. The odour and taste of the whole plantare very similar to those of the black currant. It THE ALLIGATOR APPLE. 385 was early introduced into England, but has not comeinto cultivation as a tVuit tree. The Cherimoyer (Anona cheri
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