PASSIFLORA EDUL1S. THE PASSION FRUIT. 
The passion fruit growing as a crop plant in Queensland, 
Australia, from a photograph furnished to Vice Consul -General 
Henry D. Baker "by the Agricultural Department of Queensland, 
and by him forwarded in connection with a report made at the 
suggestion of Mr. Alexander Graham Bell on the cultivation of 
this fruit in Australia. The passion fruit can he grown like 
a grape on trellises, and may he grown from seed or cuttings. 
Grows well in any ordinary open soil if well manured. Profits 
are reported to run from flOO to nearly $300 per acre annually, 
and the cultivation is very simple. The vines should he renewed 
after five years. Hence it is often used as a catch crop in 
young orchards, being removed as the fruit trees come into 
bearing. Might be used thus to advantage in Southern Florida 
and California. May also perhaps be advantageously crossed 
with the native American edible species, Passiflora incarnata, 
the fruit of which is known as may-pops. 
