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than I was able to furnish, sent me a variety 

 almost or quite identical with these which he 

 found in a private garden in Trapuato. 



Another useful variety that came from various 

 regions under different aliases was the form that 

 has been grown in Florida and in California for 

 the last thirty or forty years and which goes by 

 the common name of White Fruit. 



There are marked variations in the color and 

 quality of the fruit of this cactus, the pulp some- 

 times being white and again variegated with 

 yellow. 



Specimens from different parts of the world 

 might at first sight be thought to represent 

 different species or at least different varieties; 

 but I have found different kinds of fruit 

 growing on contiguous branches of the same 

 plant. 



The large species of cactus , that grows 

 commonly in the Mediterranean region, known 

 there as Indian Fig or Barbary Fig, is closely 

 similar if not identical with the species generally 

 called Tuna in Mexico, although the fruit of the 

 Mexican varieties is usually somewhat smaller 

 than that of the Old World form. The name 

 tuna is applied indiscriminately in Mexico to 

 cultivated and wild species of the tribe, but the 

 varieties are sometimes recognized by different 



