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frost. Can be grown with profit in a few localities around San Diego, 
California (R. R. Morrison), and in Mexico its culture yields upwards of 
$600.00 an acre. Highly valued as a decorative plant, and the leaves yield 
a very fine, silky fiber, used in the manufacture of pina cloth. This cloth 
is very delicate, soft, transparent, and is made into various articles of dress. 
Brazil. The following are the best cultivated varieties: 
Egyptian Queen. Very showy; of fine flavor; most prolific, matur- 
ing earlier and more surely than any other variety. Flavor 
something like that of a wild strawberry. 
Red Spanish. The leading variety of commerce; ruddy yellow when 
ripe, with a sparkling sub-acid flavor. 
Sugar Loaf. Sweet and delicious flavor; delicate flesh; shape tall 
and conical. 
Anona (Anonavee). 
The custard apples are beautiful and delicious fruit, becoming more 
popular and worthy of more extensive trial in California than they have vet 
received: deciduous trees or shrubs; tropical; order ANONACE®. 
A. CHERIMOLIA. Cherimoya, or Jamaica apple: fruit the size of a large 
apple, pale greenish yellow tinged with purple, weighing from 3 to 4 pounds 
each: native of Peru, where it is said to attain a weight of 16 Ib! Flesh is 
sweet, of the consistency of a custard, with thin skin. Trees in Santa Bar- 
bara bear yearly: will stand quite a frost. 
A. GUABRA. The Pond apple, or wild custard apple of Florida; hand- 
some and fragrant fruit of the size of an apple; ornamental; thrives in any 
soil. Florida. | 
A. MURICATA. Sour-sop: fruit often weighs over two pounds; pulp 
white, acrid, not disagreeable. West indies. 
A. RETICULATA. Common West Indian custard apple, with yellowish 
pulp. Not so highly prized for food as some of the other species. In Brazil 
known as CONDISSA. 
A. sQuamMosa. Sugar apple or sweet-sop; a delicious fruit; in shape 
resembling an inverted pine cone; yellowish green, ovate, the thick rind 
inclosing the luscious pulp. The acrid seeds, when reduced to a powder, 
are used an an insecticide. An ornamental bush. Malay Islands. 
AppLte—see Pyrus malus. 
APPLE, LOVE—see Tomato. 
Apricot—see Prunus armeniaca. 
ApriIcoT PLUM—see Prunus Simoni. 
ARACHIS (Leguminose). 
A. HypoG#A Linne. No description of the common peanut is neces- 
sary, but there are occasionally new varieties introduced worthy of some 
attention as, for instance, the so-called Spanish peanut, although raised 
in Virginia. The kernels are rounder and more delicate than those of 
the common variety, consequently more highly esteemed by confectioners ; 
but the habitual ‘‘peanut eaters” like the others best. Cuba peanuts 
are occasionally seen in our markets, and they are three or four times as 
