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Fruits of Cuba. 
ripe fruit -— generally be Er iiit on th £ 
tree. aA N won} 
Round the base of each wo is Mer à coarse 
fibrous web, which falls off when its protection is. no 
longer heeded. , These are often to be seen lying un- 
der the trees. They are elastic, regularly woven, and 
large enough to serve as aprons, —-— rather . too 
clumsy for such a purpose. 
"This valuable tree and its fruit are put to many 
uses, which have been often described. I will only ob- 
serve further, that it loves the salt water, and grows 
most happily on the very ‘brink of the sea. Grainger 
refers to this habit, and advises a planter to avail 
himself of it. 
When | near the — 
Let MET. coco cast its w i 
. "Tis Neptune's tree; and, parers » the spray, 
Soon round the bending stem’s aerial height 1 
Clusters of mighty nuts, with milk and fruit 
Delicious cs hang clattering in the sky.” 
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Cocos CRISPA Or ACULEATA; called i in the coüntry, 
Corojo, or Corocco. lt is a species of the Cocoa, but 
unlike the nuci fef, i its trunk is not marked by rings, 
grows erect, and has'a swell near the summit, In 
these respects it more resembles the Royal Palm ; look- 
ing, indeed, like a Royal Palm in miniature. "The trunk, 
however, though straight, cannot be called smooth, for 
it is bristling all over with long black spines, as sharp 
as needles, which are especially numerous on the swell, 
near the fruit, as if to guard it against intruders. . The 
height of the tree is twenty-five or thirty feet. 
The nuts, which are as round as bullets, grow: in 
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