Some account of the Papaw tipple. 95. 



bition of specimens of his cultivation, yet he has produced that 

 Avhich would equal the giant of his neighbors. His mode of 

 making the beds is very good, and answers every purpose: they 

 are easily weeded, and the asparagus can be cut without tramping 

 the soil down until it acquires such a firmness that that alone is 

 one great obstacle to the health and success of the roots. Let 

 all remember, who are about forming new plantations of aspara- 

 gus, that a little extra care and expense will lay the foundation of 

 beds which will flourish, with the greatest vigor, years after those 

 have ceased to produce asparagus which were carelessly and has- 

 tily set out, — Ed. 



Art. IV. Some account of the Papaw Apple, (Cdrica Papaya,) 

 and its fruiting al Hyde Park, JV. Y. By James Hogg, 

 New York. 



The Carica Papaya, or papaw apple, is a native of the 

 East Indies, and is considered a very delicious fruit; it is also 

 grown in South America and the West Indies. The fruit, a 

 drawing of which I send you, was produced upon a plant in the 

 collection of the late Dr. Hosack of Hyde Park, where it was 

 raised from seed sent to Dr. Hosack by Dr. Stevens, from the 

 Island of St. Thomas, in 1831. The plant has now upon it 

 three more fruits like the present, but they are not quite ripe.. 



This is the first time that the Carica Papaya has fruited in 

 this country, and I am not sure that it has ever ripened in the 

 gardens of England. Loudon, in hi& Encyclopedia of Garden- 

 ing, does not mention it among his exotic fruits. The fruit is 

 of a bright gold color; skin smooth, and interspersed with httle 

 russetty spots. -^ 



J. Hogg. 

 Miu York, Feb., 1838. 



The drawing of the fruit of the Carica PapdyaL,, kindly sent 

 us by Mr. Hogg, was taken by a lady of New York, of its 

 natural size; but the dimensions of our page would not al- 

 low us to give it without reducing; the annexed engraving (fig. 

 3,) is, therefore, three quarters of the natural size of the fruit, 

 produced on the above named plant, which measured six inches 



