A BASKET OP BAHIA SUGAR- APPLES . 
The fruit of the Sugar Apple {Annona squamosa) , known 
in Brazil as Fruta de Condessa and Pinha, is a tropical 
fruit of more than ordinary merit. It is cultivated to a 
limited extent in Florida, but should be certainly be 
planted much more widely than it is at the present time. 
In some of the interior regions of Brazil it ranks as one 
of the most important fruits. The white creamy flesh 
breaks apart into small segments whose outer extremities 
are marked by the carpellary divisions on the surface of 
the fruit. The flavor is sweet, melting, somewhat sug- 
gestive of the pineapple and the banana. The specimens 
shown, which were purchased in the markets of Bahia, 
Brazil, are of exceptionally fine size, the biggest ones 
measuring nearly four inches In diameter. Photo No. 14979 
by Dorsett, Shamel and Popenoe in Bahia, Brazil, March 10, 
1914. 
