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The names of the common fruits of Lagos are:—Banana and 
Plantain, Pine-apple, Mango, Cashew, Orange and Lime, Bread-fruit, 
Pomegranate, Sour Sop, Custard Apple, Avocado Pear, Tamarind, 
Granadilla, Papaw, Water Melon 
ith the exception of the Mango and Cashew, the above fruits are 
obtainable ova! the year. They are not suitable r ERN 
in a fresh state, and there are no wholesale prices for quota 
Fruits om in the Colony are exported either in a fresh or 
preserved sta 
Fruits P RE in the Colony sre capable of being produced in much 
larger quantities, but the natives do not understand the cultivation or 
the method of preserving, an Sasara there is no inducement 
among the local traders to open up or extend a trade in fresh or 
preserved fruits. 
NATAL. 
The information respecting the fruits of Natal, supplied 
Government of the Colony, has been prepared by Mr. J. ET Wood 
S., Curator of the Durban Botanical Cula by 
Sutherland, and by Mr. J. T. Edwards, a d and Maabor 7 
the Committee of the Pietermarftsbufg Botanie Society. 
dley Wood's Report deals chiefly with the fruits grown in the 
coast districts of the Colony :— 
Botanic Gardens, Durban, July. 7th, 1887. 
I src to enclose, according to your request, a list of the chief 
fruits ode in the coast districts of the Colony, with the months in 
which they: are chiang I have so very little acquaintance with 
the uplands or the fruits that are grown there that I can -deal with the 
coast districts only. 
As e quantities available for export, I am quite unable to give 
reliable information, and can only - that at present, at any rate, the 
quantity produced is not by any means large, = eros be very materially 
t present oranges, n , and pineapples are exported in 
a fresh states chiefly to Cape "Colony. "fico State, and Transvaal, and in 
smaller quantities to Europe; but as this is pee a commercial 
matter, I do not feel myself in a position to give information of any 
value upon 
The uds of the fruits enumerated in the annexed list are capable 
of being — in very much larger quantities than at presens if 
growers can only be assured of a remunerative market for 
produce. 
All that (in my opinion) is necessary to develop a fruit trade from 
the Colony is eo one d of a market; exe for transport, such as 
cool chambers on board the steamers, &e. ; owledge of the best mode 
of packing, ad. eare on the part of the scnmshiy Munera prevent 
such enormous losses from pilfering in transit experienced in 
the trial shicniant sent home by the Cotuitüslonre of à the late Colonial 
and Indian Exhibiti 
The careful culture of fruit has not as yet received much attention 
in the Colony, but if the industry were found to be fairly remunerative 
I have no doubt whatever that the size and quality of the fruit grown 
would soon be materially improved. 
