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Passi flora inaUforinis, the Sweet Calabash, is often called Water 

 Lemon here and Granadilla in Central America. It is common in 

 our markets in the early summer, the lilikoi being an autumnal 

 fruit. 



Carica papaya is like the Passion flowers, a native of tropical 

 America, and was probably introduced here in early days. Wild 

 ones abound in the Guatemaltecan forests on the Pacific coast. 

 The Plawaiian ruit as we all know varies greatly in quality, but 

 the better sorts are not surpassed anywhere. Either fresh, as a 

 breakfast fruit, or baked in slices with plenty of lime juice, it is a 

 palatable fruit. 



Ciircnbita nioscJiata, the Musk Melon, has almost disappeared 

 as a native product. Cantaloups were in former years brought in 

 abundance to our doors, but they soon became inferior, as the 

 Chinese gardeners sold all the finest ones and kept only the 

 smallest unmarketable ones for seed. I tried importing good seed 

 and distributing it to the Chinese, and for a season the results 

 were good, but they soon fell back into their old ways, and now 

 the trouble seems to rest in a worm that all our entomologists do 

 not seem able to cope with. 



CitruUus curciibita, the Watermelon, also' needs selection ; the 

 average qualitv does not seem as good at present as it was forty 

 years ago. In India it is claimed that seed of the melon is im- 

 proved by keeping four }ears. I do not know that any one here 

 has tried the experiment. As the seeds are eaten they are certainly 

 better a little dried. 



Opimfia tuna of the Cactus family, the Pa bipi of the Hawaiians, 

 we have both in the red and the greenish-white varieties of the 

 fruit: both become larger and more pulpy under cultivation. 

 Eaten and liked by the Indians of tropical America, here they 

 are generally left for the birds. 



Coifca arabica.. .Coffee of the family Rubiaceae may be classed 

 with fruits as the berry at a certain stage of ripeness is juicy and 

 sweet with a little coffee flavor. The berry of Coffca liberica, 

 although larger is not so juicy. Time and again, when riding 

 through the coffee plantations of Guatemala, I have found refresh- 

 ment in the red berry of the former. 



Morinda citrifolia, the Noni of the Hawaiians, would hardly b? 



