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are all the common tropical fruits, such as oranges of the finest 
quality, pineapples, mangos, avocados, numerous kinds of 
anas an 
is eaten as a dessert fruit. High up ont ena are grown 
some of the common fruits of t t apples (usually 
very small), peaches, quinces, sragiberries. and blackberries. 
There is also an abundance of vegetables, nearly all those 
on the high mountains, but few of them exceed walnuts in 
size. 
May 7, I sailed from La Libertad, reaching San José the next 
day. After a few days in Guatemala City, I went to Quirigu4, 
where three weeks were spent under the most perfect conditions 
enced either w ortunate in having such favorable 
conditions there under which to work, in a region of exceptional 
rea intere th coast of Guatemala has been neglect- 
- plants found at ny a low altitude must be common and 
One of the most interesting of hoe trees is Dracaena americana, 
which in general app rikingly like some of the yuccas 
and bears the same common name eaete): It was described 
new plants as on the first day. I have never seen a region equally 
