THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



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Cuban Fruits: The Marana. A peculiarity of this fruit is its bearing the seed or nut on the outside. 

 These nuts have been pronounced by confectioners in New York to be equal in all respects to the bitter 

 almond, which they strongly resemble in flavor. The fruit itself is of a pleasant flavor, slightly puckery, 

 very rich in juice, held in a rubbery pulp. The skin is light yellow and very thin. 



they may require either for their own use 

 or for the purpose of selling to others. If 

 they build a house on the land thus given 

 them and desire afterwards to leave, they 

 may dispose of the building to someone 

 else. It is their property. Any agricul- 

 tural laborer in the United States who 

 wishes to go to Cuba can make satisfac- 

 tory arrangements with Mr. Sanchez if 

 he desires to grow sugar cane on the plan- 

 tation. Mr. Sanchez will lease him as 

 many caballerias as he requires, help him 

 with oxen and agricultural implements, and 

 purchase the cane product and pay him the 

 market price. While he will not sell land 

 on the plantation to any colonist, there are 

 plenty of lands, if the immigrants so desire, 

 that can be purchased outside of the plan- 

 tation, but this is a question for later con- 

 sideration. 



The most urgent requirement just now 

 is to harvest the coming sugar crop, and 

 Mr. Sanchez' experiment with Greeks will 

 be watched with interest by all the other 

 planters in the Island who are hampered 

 by a scarcity of laborers. The opinion 

 seems to be that the Greeks will make 

 good workmen and that they will stand the 

 climate better than most colonists. 



NOTES FROM SAGl'A. 

 [From our own Correspondent.] 

 The sugar season has begun under the 

 best auspices, especially as to weather, 



which has been until now very good and 

 favorable for manufacture. 



As has been often said, the jurisdiction 

 of Sagua needs more sugar estates to 

 consume the enormous quantity of sugar- 

 cane planted, for the grinding facilities 

 of the mills now in operation are in- 

 adequate and this lack of sugar estates 

 has brought loss to the many colonos 

 who have been unable to market their 

 product. 



This year, trouble might have resulted 

 between the latter and the owners on this 

 account, the colonos demanding that 

 ^their sugar-cane be groundv and the 

 owners being unable to comply for lack 

 of sugar-mills in which to grind it. To 

 avoid friction therefore, the large . sugar 

 estate belonging to Terry, "Caracas," of 

 Cienfuegos, bought several millions of 

 "arrobas" which was satisfactory. 



This subject has been treated with 

 great certainty and knowledge by the 

 daily newspaper of Sagua, "El Impulsor," 

 whose editor is a man very well versed 

 in financial matters. 



Crops other than cane sugar are al- 

 most abandoned, and as these products 

 are bringing very high prices, the living 

 expenses of the people are increased. It 

 is the old argument so many times re- 

 peated, of the necessity and profit that 

 lie in so many other directions than in 

 cane only. 



