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When yellow spots about the size of a peso appear, pluck the fruit 
and place it in a cool dark place for several days. By this time the 
fruit should be yellow over the greater part of its suface, and will 
gently yield to thumb pressure. It is now ready for the icebox. If 
the fruit is allowed to turn yellow before it is plucked much of its 
strength is drawn back into the tree, to be supplied to other fruit in a 
less advanced stage of development. If these directions are followed 
your trees ought to bear fruit ten to twelve inches in maximum 
diameter. 
Once a year sprinkle bone ash over the surface around the base of 
the tree. This should be sufficient fertilization. 
The tree (Javan) at maturity varies from fifteen to twenty feet in 
flight and is about seven inches in diameter at the base. (The 
Mindanao Herald, March 4, 1911.) 
This rather odd way of cultivating papaya trees may interest some 
of our readers who might perhaps like to try the method suggested. 
The papaya grows so readily with us and fruits so well with no 
further cultivation than the administration of house-refuse that so 
elaborate a system as this is hardly likely to become the rule 
here. — Ed. 
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