The papaw in bloom 



which was fairly called the American banana. 

 The papaw it was; a fruit all too luscious and 

 sweet, when fully ripe in the fall, for most 

 tastes, but appealing strongly to the omnivorous 

 small boy. I suppose most of my readers know 

 its banana -like fruits, four or five inches long, 

 green outside, but filled with soft and sweet 

 aromatic yellow pulp, punctuated by several 

 fat bean -like seeds. 



But it is the very handsome and distinct 

 little tree, with its decidedly odd flowers, I 



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