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vesca. The Strawberry. There are several varieties —— 
of the aeons, under cultivation, one from Australia being the most 
prized at present. The Stra rawberry plant has to be treated as an annual — 
on the plains of India, otherwise its produce would scarcely be worth 
Eri botrys japonica. The Loquat. There are two varieties 
of this plant, one recently introduced from the north of India yields an 
excellent fruit. 5 
communis. Pear. Asa dessert fruit the Pear is said — 
to attain a certain degree of perfection i Ootacamund. Here we have 
only two AA of a tasteless cooking pear. 
pple. A good pe native families make their 
Ap 
dozen (4s. 6d. to 6s. per dozen). The plants never become trees, as may 
easily be imagined when the natives plant them only 4-5 feet venie 
here are about 20 varieties, ee Ribston Pippin, Dutch Codl 
and other well-known kinds. Am ongst the natives they are nivea 
known by their numbers only. : 
COMRRETACEJE. : 
Terminalia Catappa. Conner Almond. The large pastes 
like seeds, are eaten both in the raw and roasted. In the x HUNE 
condition they are very palatable d afford a good substitute ‘for AE 
almonds. i 
MYRTACES. eu 
Psidium Guyava. Guava. This is naturalised t throughout | 
. India. There are two well-marked varieties: var. pyriferum with one- = Duo 
flowered pendune ncles and is nit pear- gru var. pomiferunr, with two 
'void. e 
unde 
ingly fond of this fruit, which they often eat when quit e gree: Cote 
ugenia a Jambos. Rose apple. The flowers = this are large qs 
and mon while the fruit is sub-globose and slightly scented. a 
nia malaccensis. Malay apple. The pea ‘of this P 
The fruit is oval and of a beautiful rosy-pink colour. e 
are several varieties under cultivation, of which one hasan avoid. dark 
t. 
purple tru 
 Bugenia myrtifo ha This is a shrub or small. treo which 
= yields a small and palatable fruit. 
Eugenia Jambolana. ` Jets The re are vie varieties 
~ of this fruit, varying in size from that of a a segg. The 
. best is that with large fruits usually ES in fine prae A model 
of the latter may have been obser ved at the Indian Court of the Colonial 
. . and Indian Exhibition of 1886. The tree — a oe — and i is 
Es ey found in village topes as well as at — 
LYTHRACEÆ. e 
ay inne This fruit is ek. prized 
cultivated. da "There are fo 
is considered the 
