

A BASKET OF BAHIA SUGAR-APPLES. 



The fruit of the Sugar Apple (Annona squainosa) known 

 in Brazil as Fruta de Condessa and Pinna, is a tropical 

 fruit of more than ordinary meri"D. It is cultivated to a 

 limited extent in Florida, but should be certainly be 

 planted much more widely than it is at the present time. 

 In some of the interior regions of Brazil It ranks as one 

 of the most important fruits. The white creamy flesh 

 breaks apart into small segments whose outer extremities 

 are marked by the carpellary divisions on the surface of 

 the fruit. The flavor is sweet, melting, somewhat sug- 

 gestive of the pineapple and the banana. The specimens 

 shown, which were purchased in the markets of Bahia, 

 Brazil, are of exceptionally fine size, the biggest ones 

 measuring nearly four inches in diameter. Photo No. 14979 

 by Dorsett, Shamel and Popenoe in Bahia, Brazil, March 10, 

 1914. 



