Show TH r barana baran A A I 1 V 0 X D E P uh plit pill ION lon 1 run aa a correspondent i adent of til theof ild ill 1 louis louls l i I 1 1 P 1 a n writing from brazil Bi azil hns has nas has the tho following about the ba banana n na but the tho most wonderful I 1 production product loj of this and nil all tropical countries s in my estimation esthe banana and its syn 1 tile the plain tain we llave have haifa half halfa a dozen va varieties each with peculiar havor flavor hai ani ant and I 1 qualities some sonic grow 8 or 10 fee thigh others 20 the stalks are from 0 to 12 inches thick but almost as sostand tand succulent as celery each of them bear one bunch of bananas and one only when it itt is cut down with a stroke of the csima da to secure the fruit and give place to other stalks and thus they grow and ripen ripon perpetually all the year round A great traveler has calculated that the plantain on one acre of ground will p produce produce as much food as 1 acres of wheat oral or 41 aeres acres aeres acres of potatoes the fruit constitutes the principle reliance of the poor and is a luxury fon for all nil is good raw naw roasted rp asted baked and indeed in every every form abid and equally relished by all dom domestic estle estie owis owls and animals that thit devour fruit leaves stalks and all eithle 0 greatest avidity i the banana requires but a h single planting for fbi a C lifetime putting in the ground round a bingle single sprout or shoot from the at a distance distAn 66 of 20 or 0 feet from froia each other othen and und on ground that you always calculate calculate to spare tor that purpose because it is impossible to extirpate tua tue root the oad one stalk soon gives more springing nging out from the therides sides in th Aground perpetual ly alid arid in a few years covering the twe intervening ter ien spaces until the whole surface t becomes fruit androli ag tue eulth ith scarcely room to pass pas through the tho arches arche s A banana or bi a banana patch is a beautiful W with ith their stalks and their thein produce in all stages of perfection the broad leaves waving in the bro bre broeze breeze eze and fan bingin lazy lizy itzy repose while the bodies of the trees tl ci bend bind under their luscious bur ien len lian ifan iian sand d would often break down d own with the weight except from neighboring t there are to bananas on a bunch like the grapes grapo and the bunches are generally as much as a stout man can carry they rhey should always be cut as soon as the fruit is isma ma aured but while the skin is J and hanc hang up tip in the shade to turn yellow which improves the navor it takes about a year for stalk and fruit to mature mathre from the first planting and then there p is never any more trouble with theer the crop op scarcely any hoeing or weeding in gl no 66 culture only slay and eat cat C certainly ert ent ainaly it is the greatest boon ever bestowed bestow dd on the indolent tropics A native swinging in his hammock with a bunch of ripe bananas hanging hangin in reach on the one side and a ing fire on the other by which he might ight light his little cigar without getting up isa iba is a most perfect picture of contentment |