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PLANTS AND INSECTS 
mango ve is a beautiful fruit, has a good flavor, but has many strings. 
The mango-steen is about the best. 
Trinidad abounds in fruits, but an American is put to some brain- 
exercise trying to remember some of the names. We have a. large bean 
here that grows on a large tree. The pod may grow to be seven inches 
long, and contains a number of beans. The beans are so hard that they 
can not be eaten, but around them is a 
coat of jelly-like substance that is ex¬ 
ceedingly sour. The natives take this and 
sugar and make a very savory dish. 
There is also a long round black bean 
that looks like a stick of licorice and 
tastes very much like licorice. The 
licorice-like material lies in little layers 
inside the shell. 
Another tropical fruit not much 
spoken of is the chennet, a pleasant lit¬ 
tle round fruit growing in abundance on 
large trees. The skin is a crust-like 
substance easily broken and pealed off. 
The only flesh it has is a little jelly-like 
substance sticking tight around a big 
seed. One puts the whole tiling in his 
mouth and sucks off the jelly. When 
one gets a dozen big seeds piled up, he 
has not eaten more jelly than a medium-sized spoon would contain. So 
chennets are not worth much, which is true of many other tropical 
fruits. — E. N. Reedy . 
OUT-OF-DOORS ARITHMETIC 
Add bright buds, and sun, and flowers, 
New green leaves! and fitful showers, 
To a bare world, and the sum 
Of the whole to “Spring” will come. 
Multiply these leaves by more, 
And the flowers by a score; 
