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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THE CUBA REVIEW
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The Mammey Apple Tree. feature, because of the fact that the tree becomes stag-headed or shows a number of dead branches relatively early in life. The fruit varies from oblate to round and is from four to six inches or more in di- ameter. Under favorable conditions it attains the size of a child's head. It has a more or less rough, russet colored, phable, leathery skin enclosing a j^ellow, sweet, aromatic pulp in wliich are from one to four large triangular seeds. The outer leathery rind is about one-eighth of an inch thick, wliich may be removed from a second or thin inner skin that adheres closely to the pulpy portion of the fruit. When the rinds are cut while green a bright yellow mucilaginous juice exudes. The inner rind is generally considered mildly poisonous and often produces cohc when eaten by chilchen. The pulp normally adheres very closely to the seeds, which are often as large as hen's eggs. The puip is bright yellow and quite juicy though firm in texture. It is sweet and some- what aromatic, remotely resembhng the true apricots of the temperate chmate. To the northern traveler in the tropics who tastes the fruit for the first time, it has a more or less soapy or even a tarry flavor; others say that the flavor is not unlike that of molasses. The fruit is highly rehshed by the natives of the tropics, and if the best varieties were planted more extensively in the near-by tropics, as, for instance, in Cuba, and the fruit

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