. Tropical agriculture; the climate, soils, cultural methods, crops, live stock, commercial importance and opportunities of the tropics . a isextremely well adapted for use in making jams and considerable industry in this product has been establishedin Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, Florida, and elsewhere. Guavajelly or jam is almost universally well liked even on first ac-quaintance and there seems to be good prospect for a ratherlarge extension of this industry. FEIJOA The feijoa is a guava-like shrub 5 to 15 feet high, native ofParaguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. Its botanical na
. Tropical agriculture; the climate, soils, cultural methods, crops, live stock, commercial importance and opportunities of the tropics . a isextremely well adapted for use in making jams and considerable industry in this product has been establishedin Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, Florida, and elsewhere. Guavajelly or jam is almost universally well liked even on first ac-quaintance and there seems to be good prospect for a ratherlarge extension of this industry. FEIJOA The feijoa is a guava-like shrub 5 to 15 feet high, native ofParaguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. Its botanical nameis Feijoa sellowiana. The leaves resemble those of the oliveand are silver-gray beneath. The flowers are white and withfour petals and the fruit is about 2 inches long and lYz inchesthick. The feijoa fruit is of a green color or often with aslight crimson blush on one side, and the seed, while dis-tributed in large numbers through the pulp of the fruit, as inthe guava, are less objectionable than guava seed on accountof their small size. The feijoa has a flavor somewhat re-sembling a mixture of the pineapple and strawberry and is. Roselle; the Thick Calyx Is the Edible Part
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