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ply the place of bread, being either 

 roafted or boiled. When ripe, they are 

 a foft, fweet, yellow pulp, and are 

 eaten by way of defert, either raw, 

 fryed, or roafted in the hurk. About 

 fifty of thefe grow in clufters on one 

 ftem, and form what is called a bunch. 

 To gather the bunch, of which only 

 one is produced on a tree, the tree is 

 firft cut down ; but its place is incef- 

 fantly fupplied by the young fhoots, of 

 which two or three are always ready at 

 its root. There is another fpecies of 

 larger PI an tins growing on a limilar 

 tree, but they are lefs delicate. 



The Banana Tree differs but little 

 from the Plantin. The fruit, however, 

 is oval, being about four inches in 

 length, and near five in circumference. 

 It Is never eat until fully ripe, when it 

 is fragrant, agreeably fweet, and de- 

 licate. 



The 



