Show AMERICAS GREAT BANANA EATERS the brooklyn eagle in commenting on the imports of bananas says for the first time in the history of the country the sales of united states fruits exceeded in value the imports ov bananas lemons and other fruita which we get from abroad up to the present time we have always been in the debt of the foreign fruit grower but last year the demand for american apples and prunes overbalanced over balanced the imports of fruits the americans are great banana eaters every year wo import from 25 to bunches of this nutritious fruit for which we pay between and to this sum may bo added annually about worth of plantains plant ains a fruit closely resembling the banana and used for cooking purposes in the south next in importance to bananas in the import fruit trade are lemona for which upward of is expended abroad annually italy being the almost exclusive source of supply these two products bananas and lemons regularly constitute la over one halt the total annual imports of fruit |