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944 Fruits of Cuba. 
a pale yellow color, small in size, thickly clustering 
round the branches of a pretty tree, with compound 
leaves like the mountain ash. It may be the Cicca 
RACEMOSA. This fruit is acid; and chiefly valued as 
making a good preserve. The fruits of the Opuntia, 
or Prickly Pears, and of ‘some species of the Caorr, 
are also eaten occasionally. 
I feel that I have enjoyed a great TAPLAER in being 
permitted to behold the: luxuriant forms of vegetation 
which, Providence has allotted toa tropical clime. We 
* Like golden lamps in a green t night ies 
offering to the thirsty lips their fountains of delicious and 
healthy liquid, are a glory with which our orchards can 
hardly vie. And yet, if I were asked how the fruits of 
Cuba compared with our own, I should say, that leaving 
out the pine-apple and orange, with the taste of both of 
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which we aré familiar, those fruits are inferior to our 
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. own. He who can begin the summer with strawberries 
i (and cream), and pass on through the varied season with 
his fair share of cherries, raspberries, peaches, plums, 
pears, not forgetting the hedge and field ‘fruits, black- 
berries, thimbleberries, gooseberries and whortleberries, 
have a peck or two of shagbarks and chestnuts dropped 
into his basket in the frosty mornings of November, and 
a few barrels of good apples rolled into his cellar for 
- winter use, has no good reason to be dissatisfied with the 
+ fruits of his own soil, or to envy the inhabitants of Cuba 
the appt of Te 
