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Show Bananas In America. When If li remembered that tho United States now takes G0.000.00O bunches of bananas annually, and that tbo trade- Is growing steadily, It Is difficult dif-ficult to reallzo that tho banana was scarcely known In this country prtor to 1870. About that tlmo tho captain of a vessel trading between Boston and South America called a Port Morant, Jamaica, for a consignment of bamboo. Having room In tbe hold for further cargo ho decided to (111 In with bananas, with which bo and other seafarers to the tropics had long been familiar. His venturo prood eo profit-ablo profit-ablo that the Importing ot bananao became, a regular trade, which has grown steadily co tKo popularity of tbo banana bos Increased. |
