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MISCELLANEOUS FRUITS 



BESIDES the staple fruits of the temperate re- 

 gions of North America, which are discussed 

 more fully in this book, there are a great many 

 species of lesser importance which can be no- 

 ticed here only in the most general and sum- 

 mary manner. A large number of these second- 

 ary fruits are actually grown, and are familiar 

 to the ordinary person. The quince, the apri- 

 cot, and the chestnut may serve as examples 

 of this class. Other species are of secondary 

 interest to us, more because they are grown 

 outside the limits of our customary geography. 

 All the tropical and subtropical fruits are of 

 this class. Certain of them, as the orange, 

 for instance, are of great commercial impor- 

 tance in their proper latitude, and deserve as 

 careful study from the men who grow them 

 as the apple or the strawberry deserves from 

 the fruit growers of Massachusetts or Ohio. 

 But, as we have said, these fruits, for one 

 reason or another, are of only incidental in- 

 terest to the average pomologist ; and it seems 



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