. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., ly acidulous and gratefully aromatic. The trees on which this fruit grows rise to forty or fifty feetin height. In India many varieties are cultivated. The fruitwill not keep long after
. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., ly acidulous and gratefully aromatic. The trees on which this fruit grows rise to forty or fifty feetin height. In India many varieties are cultivated. The fruitwill not keep long after ripening, but is then exquisitely fine-flavored and very nutritious. The Banana (Mttsa sapientum) abounds over the torrid zoneof America, and is a principal food for millions of the humanfamily. It is said to produce more nutriment from the same3pace of ground than any other plant of the vegetable king 84 II Y D E O P A Till 0 C O OK-BOOK. Banana—Its Produeti7eness—Plantain—Mangostan—Turnip. dom. Otic thousand square feet will thousandpounds of fruit; which is said to be forty-four times greaterthan potatoes can yield, and one hundred and thirty-three timesgreater than can be obtained from the same space of wheat. The fruit is six to ten inches long, and something like thecucumber in form. Excellent bananas are found in the NewYork market during several mouths of the year. Pig. TI1E PLANTAIN. PiR 72.
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