Abstract

The list of fruits and nuts on the marcket during the year,from which the American housewife may select in accoundance with the tastes and requirements of her family is already a long and imposing onelarged in numbers at least, as well as in extent of varieties.are the customary fruits of the temperate zones.the apple pear, peach, plum, small fruits, berries and a bost of others.according to season. But there are also ranged there before her in tempting array the inevitable fruits of the tropics to which she has long been accustomed, the pine apple, coconut, and the banana, practically always in season and decades age established in the favour of the American consumer.The display would not be complete, however ,without the orange ,lemon,and grapefruit,the almond and walnut and many others.cotributions for her basket from the sub-tropics.

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