. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . strawberry Fear, 390 VEGETABLE I The Papaw—Carica papaya. Though the papaw-tree is now found in the Eastas well as in the West, 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 ditfere
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . strawberry Fear, 390 VEGETABLE I The Papaw—Carica papaya. Though the papaw-tree is now found in the Eastas well as in the West, 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
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