296 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



all over with golden flowers, followed, in due time, by the 

 so-called " figs," which resemble, in some degree, the fruit 

 of the opuntia. 



THE GRANADILLA (Passi 'flora quadrangularis). 



THE common blue Passion-flower has been mentioned 

 above as one of the choicest ornaments of a house-front 

 in the south of England, when dressed, in October, with 

 its golden berries like large plums. Several species of its 

 famous genus yield fruits of far greater magnitude, and 

 that are eatable. These are "granadillas;" the name, 

 bestowed by the early Spanish settlers in the West Indies 

 and South America, referring to the similarity of the 

 pulpy inside to that of the pomegranate. Chief among 

 them is the common granadilla, a fruit resembling a 

 citron, but more oblong, often reaching a length of fifteen 

 or sixteen inches, with a diameter of five or six, greenish 

 yellow externally, internally purplish, and abounding in 

 seeds. The pulp is rather watery, but sweetish, slightly 

 acid, fragrant, and very agreeably cooling to the palate. 

 It should be eaten after the same manner as an egg, a 

 little wine and some sugar being first introduced. It 

 ripens in our hothouses ; as do the fruits of the incarnata, 

 occasionally; of the maliformis, or "sweet calabash;" 

 and of the laurifolia, or " water-lemon." The last-named 

 and the fruit of the macrocarpa are both in fine condition 

 this year (1885) at Cherkley Court. 



