e Fruits of Cuba. . 3 
- Axowa nETICULATA ; the Custard Apple, is said to 
 resembl. the former species, but to be a larger tree, 
: bearing & larger fruit, of a dark brown color, the surface 
wc OF which i is netted = over. 
^ “| Anowa cHERIMOLIA. The Cherimoya is a large, 
| ^e i T shaped fruit, irregularly conical, having the 
Vh pointed end opposite the stalk ; that is to say, the re- ` 
- owerse of that of the pear. Some specimens are nearly 
globular. 
. - When ripe, the skin a this fruit is yellow, with or 
£z" "without a blush of red. Cut or break it open, for it is 
` quite soft, and you come to a white, creamy pulp, filled 
with black seeds, resembling those of the watermelon, 
smaller, but not so flat. The consistence of this pulp is 
that of a soft 'eustard,-or a rich and smooth ice-cream ; 
and it tastes as much like an ice-cream, very slightly — 
flavored with strawberry, às any thing I can think of, © - 
though I do not mean to say that it is as good. 
some, who have eaten the Cherimoya in South America, 
it is vaunted as being superior to the pine apple. 
Others, however, who have also eaten it there, do not 
think so much of it, and assert that a fine pear is to be 
preferred to it. Very probably it is better in certain 
parts of South America than in the West Indies, but to 
compare it any where with the princely pine-apple must 
be nonsense. It is nevertheless, as I have seen and 
tasted it, a luscious fruit, of which one may easily be- 
come. fond. It is eaten with a spoon, the skin of the 
fruit forming the custard-cup ; and there is more food in 
one fruit than any but a hungry man would care to eat 
at once, | 
