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A COLLECTION OF GUATEMALAN CHAYOTES. 
(CHAYOTA EDULIS JACQ., 8. P. I. NOS. 43S93-4S401 .) 
Mr. Wilson Popenoe has sent in from the city of Guatemala a very interesting collection of the 
types of chayote which are grown there. It is particularly interesting to observe the 
variation in this fruit, since there is only one species known in the genus. It would 
appear to be a very old cultivated plant in Guatemala. It is still an open question 
whether the smooth types of fruit with scarcely any longitudinal furrows, although 
more convenient for cooking, will yield as abundantly or have as fine a flavor and texture 
as the furrowed form already growing in Florida and Louisiana. (Photographed by 
E.L. Crandall, October 11, 1916; P20016FS.) 
