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amongst the cultivated fruits of the islands. He adds, “there is also a 
dwarf ei possibly the Chinese banana (Musa Cavendishit). 
In Borneo, Burbidge says :— 
* That duod generous of all food-giving plants, the banana, is every- 
pee hae caede in Borneo up to an altitude of 3,000 ft. It fruits all 
the 
Stai in | the Botany of the Herald, p. 336, speaks of M. EE 
s su eceeding well in the lower coast of north-west Mexico, “ but it n 
bids fruit at vus d 24? N. lat., where it is cultivated only for its 
ornamental foli 
t is recois everywhere that the dwarf banana (Jf. Cavendishii) 
does not require so much heat as varieties of M. sapientum, and on this 
ae i is T: Pid for cultivation in sub-tropical countries. 
x sort," remarks Sagot, * I have seen in the Canaries, cultivated 
in "ibi dance: with ‘the help of irrigation. It grows well, and gives 
an abundance of fine spikes, The gro owth is suspended from November 
to April; its leaves, however, remain green and fresh, and unless the 
wind, too much laden with saline spray from the sea, blackens them.” In 
Algiers the banana is merely cultivated as a curiosity in some of the 
gardens near the coast. ie Ensete, however, grows well there, and 
fruits freely. In Lower Egypt, according to Bromfield, the banana 
sueceeds well, but iti is principally confined to the teris of the 
wealthy. 
In what are known as the Gulf or the Southern United States of 
America, just outside the tropies, the banana is often grown, although 
fruit is not expected more than once in four five years. It is met 
with in the open air (in sheltered gardens) from Southern Texas to 
South Carolina. I orida its cülture for profit is nc carried on 
ripened in the open air, as, for instan by at Tustin in Los Angeles 
County. The principal Musad grown in Californ the ornamental 
Abyssinian banana (Musa Ensete). Thi produced seed from 
which plants are now growing in many parts of the State. e Abys- 
sinian banana also flowered and fruited at Palermo in South Europe in 
1873. The flower spike was over 54 feet long. ‘The seeds ripened and 
produced plants, A plant at Parc Monceaux near Paris also flowered in 
the open air, but did not produce fertile see 
As to Australasia, in New Zealand, Tasmania, Victoria, the southern 
parts of South Australia and Western Australia, the climate is too cold 
for growing bananas for fruit purposes. In the more tropical parts of 
Trist ea 
well and produce excellent fruit, some localities being better suited 
than others . . . . but notwithstanding the ease with which the 
plant can be grown very few settlers seem to grow it." In Queens- 
