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lard-apples, jacas, tamarinds, cashew-apples, ananas, jamboos, 
oranges, limes, citrons, grapes, and pomegranates: but the most 
useful, plentiful, and best fruit, is the mango (mangifera, Linn.) 
which grows abundantly all over Hindostan, even in the forests 
and hedge-rows, on trees equal in size to a large English oak, but 
in appearance and foliage more resembling the Spanish-chesnut: 
this valuable fruit varies in shape, colour, and flavour, as much as 
apples do in Europe: the superior kinds are extremely delicious; 
and in the interior resemble the large yellow peach at Venice, 
heightened by the flavour of the orange and anana: and so plen- 
tiful are mangos, in the hot season, throughout most parts of India, 
that during my residence in Guzerat, they were sold in the public 
markets for one rupee the culsey; or six hundred pounds in Eng- 
lish weight for half a crown : they are a delicacy to the rich, and 
a nutritious diet for the poor, who in the mango season require but 
little other sustenance. 
The anana, dignified by Thomson as the “ pride of vegetable 
life,” needs no description; nor have I ever tasted pine-apples of a 
superior flavour in the torrid zone, to some produced in the Eng- 
lish conservatories. The custard-apples, of two kinds, are plea- 
sant fruits: the pompelmose, or shadock (malus aurantia, Indica,) 
is much larger and more estimable than the orange: the jaca (ar- 
tocarpus integrifolia, Linn.) is of a prodigious size, growing from 
the trunk and large branches of the tree; the fruit is luscious, and 
of a powerful smell; with a seed resembling the chesnut: the guava 
(psidium, Linn.) shaped like a pear, has something of the straw- 
berry flavour: some of the jamboos are palatable, and that species 
called the jambo-rosa, or rose-apple, has the scent and taste of the 
