Identifier: threeyoungcruso00murr (find matches)
Title: Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Murrill, William A.
Subjects: Natural history--West Indies.
Publisher: New York city,: W. A. Murrill
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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d variety. The trees were large, rounded,and shapely, and bore an abundance of fruit, thatripened in x^pril and May. William thought man-goes tasted too much like turpentine and Edna hatedto eat them before the others, but Snowball fairlyreveled in them, smearing the juice over his faceand hands and half way down his little fat body.He and the monkey were largely responsible for thefibrous seeds that covered the ground under thetwo trees. Shading the walk from the gate to the house,were lemon and sweet orange trees, which perfumedthe air with the fragrance of their blossoms; whileat one corner of the house and along the gardenhedge-row, were several breadfruit trees, with theirlarge, deeply-lobed leaves and round, greenish fruitsnearly as big as a mans head. These fruits aresweet and starchy when ripe, somewhat like a sweetpotato, and are commonly cooked as vegetables,either by wrapping them in leaves and baking be-tween hot stones or by boiling and serving with 88 Three Young Crusoes
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Fig. 32. A single breadfruit. The Trees in the Yard 89 some kind of sauce. When properly cooked, freshfrom the tree, the breadfruit is most delicious.Jackfruit trees make good shade for coffee bushes. Besides the clump of cocoanut palms shading thespring, there were several others scattered about theplace, which yielded an abundance of ripe and half-ripe nuts throughout the season. Edna alwayskept a supply of fresh cocoanut water on the tablefor drinking, and she used the creamy young meatto put on one of her favorite desserts, a mixture ofsliced oranges and bananas. The cocoanut palm is an exceedingly valuabletree, every part of it being useful for something.The trunk, the leaves, the husks, the green nuts, andthe ripe nuts furnish wood, fibers, and foods. Coirfiber, used in making mats and ropes, is made fromthe husk of the unripe fruit; brooms from fibers inthe leaf-stalk; oil for burning, making soap, andeating in place of butter, is pressed from the ripemeat; sugar is obtained fr

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