Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



and for the sake of it the plant is cultivated in various 

 warm countries to an immense extent. The import into 

 England is chiefly from the west coast of Africa. In the 

 United States, the seeds of the Arachis, there called 

 "pea-nuts," are much used for the manufacture of arti- 

 ficial chocolate. The plant itself is a pretty annual, 

 easily raised in the greenhouse, with pinnate leaves and 

 yellow pea-like flowers. After fecundation, the stalk 

 supporting the ovary lengthens out remarkably, bends 

 downwards to the soil, and buries it beneath the surface, 

 where maturation is completed, and from which, when 

 ripe, the pods have to be dug up like potatoes. 



