Archive image from page 287 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer03bail3 Year: 1900 1302 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PHILIPPINE ISLANDS suckers, which spring from the base, in rows 4 ft. apart and 2 ft. in thu row. This requires about 5,000 plants per acre. It bears fruit in 18 to 20 months. Care- ful
Archive image from page 287 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer03bail3 Year: 1900 1302 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PHILIPPINE ISLANDS suckers, which spring from the base, in rows 4 ft. apart and 2 ft. in thu row. This requires about 5,000 plants per acre. It bears fruit in 18 to 20 months. Care- fully cultivated the fruit should weigh, on an average, 6-8 lbs. Occasionally specimens are found weighing 16 lbs. There are many cultivated varieties and they vary much in size and quality. With encouragement it would soon become an important branch of commerce. Up to this time they have been grown simply for home consumption and for the exquisite fiber, sometimes called 'pineapple silk,' obtained from the leaves. Guava, fruit of Psidlnni Guava, has been acclimatized and finds genial conditions. The beauty of the tree, the fragrance of the flowers and the utility of the little, subacid, juicy fruit, make it a favorite garden tree wherever it can be grown. Its excellence for jelly is known, but it has not yet attained commercial import- ance in the Philippines. See Guava and Psidiujn. Chocolate bean, fruit of Theobroma Cacao, is a small tropical evergreen, bearing an elongated, egg-shaped fruit 5-10 in. long, containing numerous seeds the size of a chestnut, imbedded in a sweet pulp. These seeds are known in commerce as chocolate beans, and both in the greeu and dry state are used by the natives as food. They contain about 50 per cent of oil and have an agree- able flavor. For manufacture, the seeds, after the re- moval of the husk, are roasted, then ground into an oily paste which is mixed with sugar and flavored, forming the chocolate of commerce. As yet, the bean has been produ
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