SANTA CRUZ = 103 
The fruits of the island are plentiful and of good 
quality, though very little attention is paid to their 
cultivation. I was told that in the houses of nearly 
every family fruit appears on the table three times a 
day, and that there is no time during the year in which 
it is lacking, though the mangos, oranges, and bread- 
fruit have certain definite seasons. Lemons and limes 
are produced continuously, and one sort of fruit replaces 
another in rapid succession. Guavas | (Psidium quajava) 
- are very common and make excellent jelly and 
serves. In some places guava bushes cover large pas ig 
those I afterwards saw on the island of Hawaii and else- 
where, often struggling with such weeds as Lantana 
camara and the sensitive ss (Mimosa pudica) for : 2 
supremacy. The so-called “cherries” of the island, 
ey, ie red little fruits, proved to be Malpighia 
ra. “plums” were species of Spondias, belong- s : 
ing to the Sen the family to which our su- 
macs and the mango belong. Spondias lutea, with yel- 
low fruit, is called hog plum; while S. purpurea, with 
purple fruit, is here known as the Jamaica plum. - : 
: — fruit of ia > is Anacardium gecea: 
