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Show Cultivation of Coco. The cultivation of coco, says a writer wri-ter in the Scientific American, is at present an inviting agricultural pursuit pur-suit in Trinidad and parts of Venezuela, Venezu-ela, The coco tree cannot withstand strong sunshine, and the young plants have to be shaded by banana or plain-tain plain-tain trees, and later, when they attain their growth, by tall trees known as "Immortels," or the "mother of the coco." These make a kind of canopy over the entire plantation. The fruit of the coco tree is a pod, resembling a cucumber and growing on the trunk, or large branches, where it "looks as though it were artificially attached." The seeds are like large, thick Lima beans embedded in pulp. These form the coco beans of commerce. The processes of curing and drying require much attention. . ; .- |