A NEGLECTED SOURCE OF DELICIOUS FOOD 



The raceme of seedless pejibayes which Don Jose Zeledon is holding at the base of the palm 

 which bore them, weighs about 25 pounds. Four or f^ve such racemes are produced by the Palm 

 Tach verr When it is recalled that these fruits contain as much nourishment as avocados, and 

 far more than bananas, the relative oblivion in which the pejibaye has been allowed to reniam 

 during the four centuries which have passed since it was first noticed by Europeans, seems unpar- 

 donable. (Fig. 5.) 



