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beautiful grain. It is not much used in building, 
but is very good for gun-stocks and other things 
for which hard, tough wood is needed. The fruit, 
however, is only about as large as a cherry, and is 
not so good for eating as the common guava, 
5. The star-apple, like the guava, is one of the 
native fruits of the West 
Indies. It grows on a spread- 
ing tree, with slender branches, 
and is a large green or purple 
fruit of the size of an apple. 
Inside, the fruit has ten parts, 
each having a black seed lying 
in the midst of a jelly-like 
pulp. The leaves are dark- 
green above, and are of a 
beautiful golden or copper 
colour beneath. 
6. The cashew is a very 
Fruit of the Cashew-nut Tree, haudsOmC trCC. ItS fruit Is 
cut through downwards. 
a nut, at the end of a fleshy, 
pear-shaped stalk, which is very nice for eating. 
From the bark a milky juice may be drawn, 
which makes a very good ink for marking linen. 
7. But the tree is best known for its nuts. Be- 
tween the outer shell of the nut, and the inner 
shell which covers the kernel, there is a thick, 
black oil, which will raise blisters on the skin, 
