NUT-BEARING TREES 



grand trees in Southern Florida give plenty 

 of fruit. The African citizens of that neigh- 

 borhood are well aware of the refreshing char- 

 acter of the "juice" of the green cocoanut, 

 and a friend who sees things for me with a 

 camera tells with glee how a "darky" at 

 Palm Beach left him in his wheel -chair to 

 run with simian feet up a sloping trunk, there 

 to pull, break open, and absorb the contents 

 of a nut, quite as a matter of course. I have 

 myself seen the Africans of the Bahamas in 

 the West Indies climbing the glorious cocoa 

 palms of the coral keys, throwing down the 

 mature nuts, and then, with strong teeth, 

 stripping the tough outer covering to get at 

 the refreshing interior. 



All these nut trees are only members of 

 the great family of trees given by God for 

 man's good, I firmly believe; for man first 

 comes into Biblical view in a garden of trees, 

 and the city and the plain are but penances 

 for sin ! 



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