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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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higan and Illinois. The intro-duction by these people of the French method of propaga-tion upon the quince stock gave an immense impetus to thecultivation of the fruit, as by this process the period offruiting was reduced from twenty to thirty years to threeor four years. The pear, like the apple, peach, plum, cherry, and manyother forms, is referred to the Rosacea;, or Rose family. Itbelongs to the genus Pyrus, which also includes the apple,the crab apple, the mountain ash, and the historical rowantree. For the most part, the American forms have beenderived from the European Pyrus communis and theoriental Pyrus sinensis. The trees differ in general aspectsfrom the apple tree in possessing a more pyramidal form,in being considerably longer as a seedling plant, and, whileless hardy, being longer lived. It is propagated by seeds,cuttings, layers, budding, and grafting, but its sensitivenessto climatic conditions has materially lessened its distributionin the United States. C. S. Raddin.
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352 BANANA.Natural size. FRUITS, NUTS, ETC. 155 THE BANANA The Banana Plant is herbaceous and dies down to theground after fruiting. The true stem is underground andperennial, sending up new shoots each season, which growrapidly and in a few months bear ripened fruit. The stalk that bears the flowers grows to a height offrom fifteen to twenty feet and is surrounded by the sheath-ing bases of the leaves. The flower cluster or spike isterminal and from two to four feet in length and nodding.The oblong leaves are dark green in color, from five to tenfeet in length, and from one to two feet in width. Thebeautifully arching leaves and the pendulous cluster offlowers or fruits form an attractive foliage and make theplant a noted ornament for the garden. The mam^ varieties of both the banana and plantain,which vary in taste, color, form, and size, are very widelydistributed throughout the world, being usually found in azone bounded by 38 degrees north and 38 degrees southlatitude. It is said

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