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particularly in its fruit (see the U. S. Dispen- 

 satory) banishes dyspepsia, the chief source of 

 ill health and melancholy. 



Mrs. Jack London says in Our Hawaii: 

 "Jack is wild about this fruit, and has it for 

 every breakfast" — so it is not the natives alone 

 who relish it. Let us by all means have in our 

 markets the papaya in addition to the papaw. 

 It is a native of Mexico, belongs to the passion- 

 flower family, and is highly ornamental as well 

 as useful. "For sheer beauty, in an artificial 

 sense, it is the most remarkable tree we have 

 ever seen,'* wrote Mrs. London, and she and 

 Jack were great travelers. 



David Fairchild, our government's explorer in 

 charge of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, 

 is so much interested in the papaya that he has 

 issued a special pamphlet on it (to be had from 

 the Superintendent of Documents in Washing- 

 ton), which will serve as a guide to those who 

 may wish to grow papayas as well as papaws. 



