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CHAPTER II. 



FRUITS. 



Those vegetable products which we shall describe in this 

 chapter naturally divide themselves into two sections — " The 

 Fleshy Fruits " and " The Nuts." They are numerous and 

 very interesting ; coming as they do from almost all parts 

 of the globe, they give us much information respecting the 

 aspect of the Vegetable Kingdom in the distant regions from 

 whence they are brought. Some are rare, and do not often 

 meet the eye of even those who are curious in such things ; 

 others arrive in such enormous quantities as to furnish em- 

 ployment for an immense amount of tonnage in shipping, 

 and many hundreds of thousands of persons, constituting 

 an important source of revenue, and giving us an abundance 

 of particularly useful and wholesome food. 



