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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubarevie19muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931. (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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14 TIIK CUBA UEVIEIV
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The Mamoncillo Tree of Cuba. has not yet been investigated, but it has possibiUties for important technical uses in a large way. Moreover, the fruit could be prepared and served in different ways. It would make a delicious dessert and from it could be made a marmalade equal to that of any fruit. Another way to serve it would be in the form of a pudding. Although the writer has no information of such use, it may be safely asserted that a beer or brandy could be prepared from these juicy fruits. The seeds when freed from the pulpy matter are about as large as a hazel nut and have a relatively thin shell. The inner portion or kernel is a starchy mass not unlike that of a chestnut and children are very fond of these nuts when roasted. If these seeds were properly collected, prepared and roasted in a commercial way, a market could be developed for them in the States, same as there is now for the cashew and other nuts that are imported so largely. As an ornamental tree the genip is very attractive and well worth cultivating. The beautiful glossy green of its foliage, forming a very dense crown, contra.sts pleasant- ly' with the lighter and darker shades of green of the surrounding trees. The trees are

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