CAPULINS ON SALE IN AN ECUADOREAN MARKET-PLACE 



In every town and village of the Ecuadorean highlands huge baskets of capullns are a daily 

 sight in the market-place during at least three or four months of the year. The capulin is, 

 in fact, the mostjimportant fruit of that region, judged either from the standpomt of production, 

 or as a factor in the diet of the Indians who constitute at least three-fourths of the population. 

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