. Elements of Philippine agriculture. Agriculture. FRUITS 177 Besides the ripe fruit, other parts of the plant are supposed to be useful in various ways. If the unripe fruit is fed to ducks and geese, it is expected to cause an abundance of eggs. It is given to human beings as a vermifuge. Soap is sometimes made from the leaves. The milky juice contains a substance like that in the juice of the stomach, wliich can digest the fibers in meat, and so make the meat tender and easily di- gestible. There are many va- rieties of this nourishing: fruit. Papaya is always reproduced by seed, and may mat
. Elements of Philippine agriculture. Agriculture. FRUITS 177 Besides the ripe fruit, other parts of the plant are supposed to be useful in various ways. If the unripe fruit is fed to ducks and geese, it is expected to cause an abundance of eggs. It is given to human beings as a vermifuge. Soap is sometimes made from the leaves. The milky juice contains a substance like that in the juice of the stomach, wliich can digest the fibers in meat, and so make the meat tender and easily di- gestible. There are many va- rieties of this nourishing: fruit. Papaya is always reproduced by seed, and may mature in as short a time as nine months. The fruit should be produced throughout the year. • j,,^_ ^^,_ p^^^^^^^. CITRUS FRUITS History. Citrus is a genus of fruit trees, including all the kinds of oranges, lemons, limes (cabuyao), and pomelos, or lukban. As articles of commerce, these are the most important of tropical fruits; but the lands fore- most in their production, Italy and California, are not really tropical. A number of species of citrus are culti- vated ; but they have been so mixed in cultivation, and so many new forms have been produced, that it is no longer possible to state what, or how many, the wild. 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 Copeland, Edwin Bingham, 1873- [from old catalog]. Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y. , and Manila, World book company
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