Uintah Basin Record | 1939-06-09 | Page 2 | Pineapple of American Birth

Pineapple of American Birth The exotic pineapple is of American Ameri Amen can birth Wild pineapples growIng growing growing grow grow- ing in hi highland forests of ot interior ulterior Brazil and Paraguay resemble the ancestors of the cultivated fruit a fruit a like fist three-inch three apple full of black seeds and topped by a tuft of grassy spears of leaf leat Several centurIes centuries cen cen- tunes of domesticated life have Improved improved improved Im im- proved the species to a size approaching approaching approaching ap ap- 12 pounds In weight and to a state of complete New plants are arc st started from slips sUps of old ones Air plants such as the Spanish moss festooning with dolorous dolorous dolorous dol dol- orous gray the trees of Florida and Louisiana are cousins to the pineapple pine pine- apple C