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fruit and nut; the Xatal Plum (Carissa grandi- 

 flora) from South Africa, with its fragrant 

 flowers and scarlet fruit; and the White Sapote 

 (Casimiroa edulis) from Mexico with quincelike 

 fruit of unique flavor these are among some of 

 the tropical and subtropical products that have 

 come to us within recent years and that promise 

 to make secure place for themselves among well- 

 prized fruits of orchard and market. And there 

 are others yet to come. 



Meantime I should not like to predict as to 

 which among the fruits that now are confined 

 solely to the region of the Gulf of Mexico and to 

 California as their northern limits, may not with- 

 in a century be growing and bearing luxuriantly 

 in the region of the Great Lakes. 



It should be recalled that almost 

 all of our fruits, even the hardiest 

 ones that now penetrate nearly to 

 the Arctic zone, must have come 

 originally from warmer climates. 



