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Show ' Frulta of Colombia, i The fruits aud vegetables (n Colombia j are delicious and grow without culture or I care. Tho plantain is iu universal use and is nlwnys served as a vegetable It La . fried and boiled when the skin is yellow, when it is known as "green" plantain, and when it Is black nnd the fruit is considered con-sidered thoroughly ripe. Tho bnnana Is ; never fried in tho tropics, but is always served as a fruit. There are ninny varie-, varie-, lies of banana. One of the most de-I de-I Hcious spicies in flavor and fragrance Is the little fig or guineo banana, which is scarcely a finger in length. Tho red ba-; ba-; nana Ls not a different species, but a variety va-riety produced by grafting at Baracoa, Spain. All the bananas iu Colombia are I yellow. Tho enruba, or passlou flower ; fruit, the custard apple, called by an en-! en-! thusiaslic traveler "the spiritualized strawberry," and tho guava aro all de-i de-i hcious fruits which never reach our nortb-: nortb-: eru markets in perfection. Amy C. Shanks iu Good Housekeeping. |