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ing any other freight. The harvest never ends. From January 

 to December there is a continuous cutting and marketing. One 

 sees at the same time the budding blossoms, the young fruit, and 

 the fully developed bananas. 



Those who have seen cotton plants elsewhere, rarely attaining 

 the height of a man, are ill prepared to see cotton trees growing 

 to the height of 12 feet, with numberless branches, which are 

 tipped by the snowy down. There is nothing that more clearly 

 proves the fertility of Costa Rican soil. The bread-fruit tree is 

 also a wonder to northern visitors. The tree is tall and massive ; 

 its branches are innumerable ; its leaves large, resembling fig 

 leaves, and the characteristic bread-fruit, of a greenish yellow 

 color, is the size and shape of a cantalonpe. The fruit — fried, 

 boiled, and baked, very much like potatoes — forms one of the 

 staple foods of the working people. 



The Costa Rica-Nicaraguan and Panama canals are such im- 

 portant projects that the nations of the earth must sooner or 

 later complete them. Costa Rica, occupying almost entirely the 

 territory between the two proposed canals, will ere long reap the 

 benefit of such an unparalleled position. The Nicaraguan canal 



LIJMON, COSTA RICA, FROM THE PARK 



