Trees Found in the Fields I41 



aids digestion and renders tough meat tender. The 

 juice is also used for curing warts and wounds, and 

 the leaves have been employed as a substitute for 

 soap. 



Pomegranate. A small tree or shrub with scar- 

 let flowers and large, rounded truits. The wood has 

 been used for engraving as a substitute tor boxwood. 

 The pomegranate is cultivated chiefly tor its flow^- 

 ers. The fruit has a thick skin, often brilliant red, 

 and amber-like seeds surrounded by pulp. 



Sand-Box. Grown for shade along roadsides. 

 When working the lumber, carpenters have to put 

 gauze over their faces to prevent the poisonous dust 

 from irritating the nose and mouth. The ripe fruit 

 splits open with a loud report, allowing the loose 

 seeds to escape, hence the popular name, monkey's 

 dinner-bell. 



Sapodilla. The highly esteemed fruit ot this 

 tree is round and two to three inches in diameter, 

 with sweet flesh and milky juice. The wood is hard 

 and strong. A valuable gum, called "chicle," much 

 used for the manufacture of chewing-gum, is made 

 from the milky juice of the trunk or the fruit, by 

 evaporating it down. 



SiLK-CoTTON Tree. A tree ot immense size with 

 buttressed trunk and wide-spreading branches. 



