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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
vator to receive but sixpence a bunch of nine ^'hands'' as the 
clusters of fruit are called, and threepence for one with seven 
handes. Smaller bunches are not accepted for export at any 
price. 
Although a large amount of grape-fruit annually comes 
to our markets, it seems practically unknown except in the 
cities. To all intents it is a kind of large orange, being 
constructed like that fruit, but with a flavor that is all its own 
and like nothing else. In some places it is disliked because 
of a bitter taste in the membrane surrounding the sections 
of pulp, but in its home it has no trace of this and would seem 
to grow bitter only when obliged to go to foreign markets. 
It is usually eaten by being cut across the sections, the centre 
where the sections meet cut out with a sharp knife and filled 
with sugar, the pulp mixed up with a fork and finally carried 
to the mouth with a spoon. The shaddock is often regarded 
as but another name for the grape-fruit, but there are a few 
minor differences. The shaddock tree is like an apple tree in 
appearance and in the proper season is loaded down with fruit 
of truly monstrous proportions. This fruit is shaped like a 
pear, but its size and weight suggest the idea that it was once 
round and has sagged down in this shape through the sheer 
fatigue of holding on to the tree. The pulp is coarser than 
that of the grape-fruit but otherwise much resembles it. The 
citron is allied to the same class of plants but looks more like 
a very large lemon. It has an exceedingly thick rind and a 
coarse acid pulp. The rind is about the only part used, being 
generally candied. 
Of the fruits that rarely come to our markets, the mango 
easily stands at the head. It is said to originally have been 
introduced into the West Indies from India, but now has be- 
come thoroughly naturalized. In its season it is the chief, if 
not the whole subsistence of the negroes. While mangoes 
are plentiful, it is difficult to get a negro to work at all. He 
