i o Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



cloud-berry, and the hazel-nut. Of kinds more or less 

 probably indigenous, plus many introduced from foreign 

 countries in bygone ages, and assiduously cultivated, we 

 have over twenty the apple, the pear, the quince, the 

 medlar, the peach, the nectarine, the apricot, the plum, 

 the cherry, the grape, the gooseberry, the currant, the 

 raspberry, the strawberry, the walnut, the melon, the pine- 

 apple, the fig, the mulberry, and others of less import- 

 ance. Some of these present themselves under forms so 

 different the plum, for instance, when fashioned into a 

 greengage that practically the number is perhaps nearer 

 thirty. Of imported fruits few of them ever cultivated, 

 and then chiefly as curiosities or for ornament the list 

 runs again to about a score, including the orange, the 

 lemon, the citron, the lime, the shaddock, almonds, chest- 

 nuts, coco-nuts, juvias, sapucajas, opuntias, bananas, 

 pomegranates, hickory-nuts, pecuan-nuts, souari-nuts, 

 etc., all in the fresh condition, or just as they come from 

 the tree, with various dried ones besides, as dates and 

 litchis. Figs in the dried state, " French plums," prunes, 

 raisins, and the currants of the grocers' shops may be 

 mentioned for completeness' sake, though belonging 

 botanically to the previous lists. Occasionally we may 

 see loquats, the custard-apple, granadillas, and a few 

 others, the aggregate of all sorts thus amounting to 

 about sixty. The number of the strangers will probably 

 increase year by year, owing to the more rapid ocean 

 communication now practicable, and to that laudable, 

 not to say noble, interest in the productions of foreign 



