Show BANANA BLOSSOM SENT TO MRS 8 31 LOGAN al mrs rs S M logan for the last two days lays has been busy chowing a banana blossom to her many friends too strange blossom was sent her b her sister mrs P L love Kis kissimmee simmee florida and Is indeed strange to vornal vernal people the beautiful plum colored bud la is tightly rolled together with largo large separate calyxes covering the tiny cluster of bananas which adheres to tho the stem each calyx covers a clus aclus tor ter and so on down to tho the end of the bunch tho the color on the inside of each calyx Is a brilliant vermillion rod red the bud weighs t of a pound to secure a bud a whole banana tree must be cut down and must grow a new stem again to produce a fruit 0 owing ing to our bad had roads the bud was aas over two to weeks on the road |