Show m rt 7 TREES THAT GIVE COCOA t. t Ir M 1 r Cocoanut Palm and Cacao Tree Both t. t Handsome Specimens 1 Many of us who use uso cocoa and 4 j cocoanuts daily do not know that they are are obtained from two distinct trees treed The cocoanut palm is the fruit of a aall atall tall all and graceful palm tree wh whereas reas i ithe Ilic the lic c cocoa c a or more properly cacao is ithe j i the powdered seed of a small and find h handsome tree bearing Dearing no no resemblance resemblance I J blance to the cocoa palm In In fact fa t l I lj j the cacao tree is closely allied to the t I linden or lime trees No one who has I ever the the- peculiar atance ever cr seen appearance pp presented pre pre- sensed by the cacao tree will win be likely to mistake it for anything else Th The tree itself grows to a height of twenty ty iy or twenty five feet with a rath rather t smooth and slender trunk thick r bushy and symmetrical top and handsome handsome hand hand- some iome some broad oval leaves of a deep purple purple purple pur pur- or bro bronze color Instead d of grow growIng growIng Ing lag at the end of or the branches or twigs as do most blossoms the flow flowers ers bud out directly from the bark barIc of ot the limbs and trunk The flowers are Small mall and insignificant but the fruit shaped liko like a cucumber grows to a largo size sometimes s eight ight or ten feet in length and three e or four inches y a across a across ross It is brilliantly colored or or- ore e ange ge red or yellow and under favorable favor favor- able We conditions fairly covers t. t the e tree and is a beautiful sight I I |