The Trees in the Yard 89 



some kind of sauce. When properly cooked, fresh 

 from the tree, the breadfruit is most delicious. 

 Jackfruit trees make good shade for coffee bushes. 



Besides the clump of cocoanut palms shading the 

 spring, there were several others scattered about the 

 place, which yielded an abundance of ripe and half- 

 ripe nuts throughout the season. Edna always 

 kept a supply of fresh cocoanut water on the table 

 for drinking, and she used the creamy young meat 

 to put on one of her favorite desserts, a mixture of 

 sliced oranges and bananas. 



The cocoanut palm is an exceedingly valuable 

 tree, every part of it being useful for something. 

 The trunk, the leaves, the husks, the green nuts, and 

 the ripe nuts furnish wood, fibers, and foods. Coir 

 fiber, used in making mats and ropes, is made from 

 the husk of the unripe fruit; brooms from fibers in 

 the leaf-stalk; oil for burning, making soap, and 

 eating in place of butter, is pressed from the ripe 

 meat; sugar is obtained from the sap of the young 

 flower cluster; and various utensils from the shell 

 of the nut. 



A single royal palm towered between the house 

 and the kitchen, its straight, smooth trunk looking 

 like a shapely Grecian column. Several smaller 

 palms of different kinds, such as the small-fruited 



