. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . it is generally iniderstood tobe a native of America, and to have been carried tothe East about the time of the first intercourse be-tween the two continents. The papaw rises with ahollow stem to the height of about twenty feet, afterwhich it has a head composed, not of branches, butof leaves and very long foot-stalks. The male andfemale flowers are on ditferent trees: the femaleflowers are bell-shaped, large, generally yellow, andfollowed by a fleshy fruit, about the size of a smallmelon. The tree
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . it is generally iniderstood tobe a native of America, and to have been carried tothe East about the time of the first intercourse be-tween the two continents. The papaw rises with ahollow stem to the height of about twenty feet, afterwhich it has a head composed, not of branches, butof leaves and very long foot-stalks. The male andfemale flowers are on ditferent trees: the femaleflowers are bell-shaped, large, generally yellow, andfollowed by a fleshy fruit, about the size of a smallmelon. The tree, and even the fruit, are full of anacrid milky juice; but the fruit is eaten with sugarand pepper, like melon; and when the half-grownfruit is properly i)ickled, it is but little inferior to thepiclUed mango of the East Indies. There are many GRENADILLAS. ;:!Hl forms in the fruit, and some varieties in the colour ofthe flower of the ])a|)aw: and there is also a dwarfspecies ; thouiih, as this has been observed chiefly inarid situations, it may be the common sort stuntedfor want of Grenadillas—Passijlora The passifloras are a very numerous race; they aremostly natives of the West Indies and the tropicalparts of America, from which some of the specieshave been introduced into this country, chiefly onaccount of the beauty of their flowers. Few of thespecies bear fruit in this country. The grenadillas with which we are best acquaintedare those of the West India islands, the chief ofwhich are the purple-fruited (^Passijlora edulis)—^ 392 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. the Passi-ftora qiiadrangularis—and the ivatcr-lemon{Passijlora laurifolia). The stem of the first isherbaceous, the fruit round, of a hght purple, whenripe, witli a whitisii and rather pleasant pulp. ThePassijlora quadrangiilaris is the most valuable forcultivation here ; and it has borne fruit in the gT^irdensof the Horticultural Society. The water-lemon is alarger and more woody plant: the flowers are hand-
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