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South Florida in 1847 from Havana, is extensively 

 grown, and a jelly factory exists at Fort Gatlin, where 

 fifty cents a bushel is paid for the fruit. At Adam 

 Quays and Jacksonville they fetch $1*50 and $2*00 a 

 bushel. There are ten varieties at present cultivated 

 in Florida — one of which, the white winter guava, des- 

 cribed as very large, 3 or 4 inches in length, pear 

 shaped, with few seeds, is unsurpassed for canning, as 

 the seeds can be removed like the core of an apple. 

 The Guinea guava produces fruit an inch in diameter 

 of exquisite flavour. Psidium araca from Brazil is 

 well spoken of. The Cattley guava (Psidium Cattley- 

 anum) bears fruit an inch in diameter of a fine dark 

 colour and with a strawberry flavour. 



The report contains a list of a dozen other guavas 

 natives of Central and South America. 



The report insists on the value of the fig (Ficus Carica) 

 and- remarks that no attempt has been made in Florida 

 to dry or prepare the fig for commercial purposes. 



The fig grows well in this colony and some remarks 

 as to its culture and preparation may be of interest. 

 The price in New York for figs grown in the Gulf States 

 is about 35 cents a quart. A large number of figs are 

 named, amongst them the White Adriatic, from which 

 the finest Smyrna figs of commerce are produced, and 

 it begins to bear the year after it is planted. In Cali- 

 fornia there are trees yielding from 1,800 to 2,000 lbs. 

 of green fruit. In that State the common variety is 

 the Mission which was introduced from Mexicu. 



Dried figs are prepared at Los Angelos by being 

 placed when cut, on trays having laths on the bot- 

 tom, on which the eye of the fig is placed so as to 



