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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview07muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
Subjects: Cuba -- Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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THE CUBA REVIEW 23 mosa) and the common mangrove (Rhi- zophora mangle). Some thirty or more years ago Cuban insurgents established strongholds in this range and cultivated plantations. Traces of this civilization are to be found in the wild coffee trees which have straggled away from the former cafetieras, guavas, the delicious little fruit from which the celebrated guava jelly is made; cacao, avocado pears, bread fruit, cocoa, palms, bananas and some other fruits which mark the sites. Toward the top of the range a change occurs in the general character of the trees, and large specimens of the mu- lato, alleyota, barril and retayma, with trunks attaining a diameter of three to four feet, and a number of smaller spe- cies not found in the lower altitudes, make their appearance. The height of the trees seldom exceeds 125 feet, but the diameter in some cases is as much as six feet. Such palms as the spiny juta and the manaca, with tree ferns preserve the tropical character of the growth at the top of the range, where the underbrush and growth of vines form an even inore dense jungle than elsewhere. Cuba seems adapted to the growth of many northern forms of arborea, as well as vegetables, and the conditions there, favoring rapid development, en- courage the belief that there might well be founded a forest nursery, supplying in no small part, the requirements of a tree-impove "Ished world. Immense tracts of native pine exist on the lines of the Western Rail- way in the Province of Pinar del Rio, which, though containing too high a percentage of resin to last long when used for building purposes, is especially valuable for the manufacture of charcoal, with turpentine as a by-product. In the same section were recorded some hard woods not yet acquired by foreign in- terests.
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FRUIT TREES OF CUBA. The Sapote, bearing a fruit very much Hked by Cubans, and which the visitor soon finds palatable. FRUTAS CUBANAS. El Zapote. Es un magnifico arbol de sombra y de adorno, cuya fruta esti muy apreciada por los cubanos y los extranjeros tambien la hallaran muy sabrosa.

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