AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OF THE 
STRAINS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
No. 12.] OCTOBER, 1902. [Vol. 1. 
FRUITS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA,— Continued. 
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The Apple, Pear, Blackberry, Strawberry and Loquat have all 
been tried in the Straits, and most of them grow moderately well, 
and flowered. None except the Apple have produced fruit worth 
eating. A few Apples have been grown on Penang Hill, at an 
altitude of about 2,000 feet, but the amount of fruit produced does 
not offer any encouragement to gardeners. 
Rubus moluccanus, the common wild raspberry of our open coun- 
try, produces fruit consisting of a very few orange coloured flavour- 
less drupelets and is not worth eating. 
R. rosaefolius not rare in the hill districts with white flowers, 
and good sized red fruit is more worth attention. The fruit resem- 
bles that of an ordinary raspberry but is taller in proportion to its 
breadth, the flavour is very inferior to a cultivated raspberry, but 
it is well worth growing and eating. It will grow in the plains as 
well as the hills, and is raised from seed. The fruit is good either 
raw or made into a tart. 
R. lasiocarpus , Sm., has been cultivated successfully on Penang 
Hill. It is a handsome plant with silvery grey stems, leaves white 
underneath, and large purple . fruit. It is propagated by layers. 
The fruit is abundantly produced and is quite worth eating. In 
India whence it was obtained, Firminger describes it as similar 
in flavour to the common English Blackberry but vastly superior 
and says that by judicious cultivation it might be rendered very 
productive. It might well be cultivated in our hill districts. • 
Parinarium nitidum , Hook. fil. A medium sized tree scattered 
over the Peninsula and abundant in Penang, bears small round 
sweet drupes which are eaten by natives and children, but are too 
small to be worth eating. 
Chrysohalanus Jcnco. The Coco-plum of South America, is a 
large shrub of rapid growth which has long been cultivated in 
Singapore. The fruit is globular about an inch through rose pink 
with a bloom like that of a plum on it. The flesh is abundarvt and 
white rather pithy, and slightly sweet and astringent, otherwise 
tasteless. It is a pretty fruit but not worth eating. 
