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plentiful at Gowhatti in Assam, where it produces fruit as large 

 as a moderate-sized Jack. 



The fruit begins to ripen about the latter end of June, and is 

 in season in July and August, retaining when ripe its dark 

 green colour. It is of the form of a bullock's heart rather pro- 

 longed, and not unfrequently of a kidney-form, from the apex 

 taking a curve upwards. The substance of the fruit amongst 

 which the seeds are scattered is of a soft woolly pulp, intermixed 

 with a juicy mucilage of a strong, rather vinous flavour, some- 

 what like that of the Pine-apple ; but it is wanting in sweetness, 

 and has a certain degree of rankness that causes it to be disliked 

 by most persons who have not acquired a taste for it. To most 

 palates, however, it may be made agreeable by putting the 

 pulp into a tumbler, sweetening it with pounded loaf-sugar, 

 and pouring over it a glass of sherry. There is a considerable 

 difference in the produce of different trees, some proving vastly 

 superior to others. 



Plants are raised easily from the pips. 



Anona cherimolia. 



CHERIMOYER. 



The fruit of the Cherimoyer is described as "of the size and 

 form of the Sour-sop, and of a light green colour, or as holding 

 a middle place between the Sweet-sop and Custard-apple, being 

 subsquamous like the former, and reticulated like the latter." 



It is a native of Peru. Mr. Gosse states that the fruit is 

 grown to perfection in Jamaica, but only in certain mountainous 

 localities. 



Mr. Markham says : 



" They have most of the other kinds of Anonas in India, but the 

 Cherimoyer fruit, the most exquisite of all, has yet to be raised. 

 He who has not tasted the Cherimoyer has yet to learn what fruit 

 is." 



"The Pine-apple, the Mangosteen, and the Cherimoyer," says 

 Dr. Seemann, "are considered the finest fruits in the world. I 

 have tasted them in those localities in which they are supposed to 

 attain their highest perfection the Pine-apple in Guayaquil, the 

 Mangosteen in the Indian Archipelago, and the Cherimoyer on the 

 slopes of the Andes and if I were called upon to act the part of a 

 Paris, .1 would without hesitation assign the apple to the Cheri- 



