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
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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THE CUBA REVIEW 17
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The Vendors Awaiting Customers. ical America, as well as for saucepans or kettles in which to boil water. The shell is very- hard, tough and not inflammable, and bears the fire for several successive times without injury. The fruit varies in size and general outline on different trees, but may be described as round, oval or even bottle-shaped, and by skilful tying the growing fruit can be made to assume almost any form. In recent years a good many of the smaller fruits that were properly grown and molded when young were used for making smokers' pipes. The larger and well developed fruits are from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter, and have a thin greenish yellow skin over a hard and woody shell. The pulp within consists of a pale yellow soft and juicy substance, which is regarded by some to be a valuable remedy for certain internal disorders. When the fruit is ripe and the pulp is removed, the hard shell is dried and reduced by scraping. The small cups hold from one to four pints, and the large oval ones as much as seven to eight quarts. The outside of the shells is often highly pohshed and ornamented by means of figures carved, engraved or printed upon them. In this condition they are sold extensively to the northern travelers. The elaborately carved calabashes often bring

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