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The Mammey Apple Tree. 
feature, because of the fact that the tree becomes stag-headed or shows a number of 
dead branches relatively early in life. 
The fruit varies from oblate to round and is from four to six inches or more in di- 
ameter. Under favorable conditions it attains the size of a child’s head. It has a more 
or less rough, russet colored, pliable, leathery skin enclosing a yellow, sweet, aromatic 
pulp in which are from one to four large triangular seeds. The outer leathery rind is 
about one-eighth of an inch thick, which may be removed from a second or thin inner 
skin that adheres closely to the pulpy portion of the fruit. When the rinds are cut while 
green a bright yellow mucilaginous juice exudes. The inner rind is generally considered 
mildly poisonous and often produces colic when eaten by children. The pulp normally 
adheres very closely to the seeds, which are often as large as hen’s eggs. 
The pulp is bright yellow and quite juicy though firm in texture. It is sweet and some- 
what aromatic, remotely resembling the true apricots of the temperate climate. To the 
northern traveler in the tropics who tastes the fruit for the first time, it has a more or 
less soapy or even a tarry flavor; others say that the flavor is not unlike that of molasses. 
The fruit is highly relished by the natives of the tropics, and if the best varieties were 
planted more extensively in the near-by tropics, as, for instance, in Cuba, and the fruit 
