Photograph by A. W. Cutler 



FORBIDDEN FRUIT : ENGLAND 



Adam and Eve and the apple. When Adam got the apple back, there was not much left but 



the core. 



Some plantations are found in Florida, 

 but the frosts frequently nip them there, 

 so they are often grown under sheds to 

 guard them from the cold. The pine- 

 apple contains vegetable pepsin, and there 

 are many cases of derangements of the 

 stomach in which it is a valuable aid to 

 the physician. 



The orange, the lemon, and the grape- 

 fruit are grown where the pineapple 

 thrives, and sugar-cane grows there, too. 

 Traveling through our busy little island, 

 Porto Rico, orange and lemon groves 

 alternate with sugar plantations and pine- 

 apple fields. When one comes to the up- 

 land region, the coffee "finca" takes the 



place of the pineapple field, for coffee is 

 the most fastidious of all plants ; it will 

 not thrive in the lowlands, and it refuses 

 to grow well at points having too much 

 elevation. 



THE OLIVE'S POSITION 



If one should draw a ring around the 

 Mediterranean Sea back a hundred miles 

 or so from the shore, and another around 

 southern California, he would circum- 

 scribe the two great olive-producing re- 

 gions of the earth. Although the olive is 

 said to have come originally from Asia 

 Minor, Italy now grows more of them 

 than any other country, while Algiers, 



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