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Show "Eveo Apple Tree." A fruit supposod to boar tho mark of Evo's teeth Is ono of tho many botanical curlosltlos of Ceylon. Tho treo on which It grows Is known by iho significant namo of "tho forbidden fruit," or "Evo's applo treo." Tho Llossom has a vory pleasant scent, but tho really romarkablo feature of tho tree, tho ono to which It owes Its name Is the fruit. It Is beautiful, nnd hangs from tho treo In a peculiar manner. man-ner. Orange on tho outside nnd deep crimson within, onch fruit has tho ap-pearanco ap-pearanco of having had a pieco bitter, out of It. This fact, togothor with its poisonous quality, led tho Mahometans Mahome-tans to ropresont It as tho forbidden fruit of the Garden of Edon, and to warn mon against Its noxious prop-urtlos. |