The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-09
NOVELTIES FOR HOUSEWIVES.
New Vegetables and Fruits Introduced For
Their Use.
Their . Sc.

with vinegar, salt and pepper. The
fruit varies in color from .pale green te
deep purple, and it has a single big
seed in the middle, which is poison
Gus. They are beginning to grow it in
Southern California, aad recently
there has been introduced hardy va
riety from Northern Mexico, which
will bear several degrees of frost and
which is expected to do well in Lou
isiana and in the orange growing dir
tricts generally.
TIE JAPANESE PLUM
is another fruit that has recently be-
come. quite common in Northern mar
kcts, coming from Florida and South
aTn California. 1t grows we'll ur into
the northern part of the howcry pen
insu!a, also in Louisiana and in parts
of Texas. In reality it is not plum,
but more nearly related to the apple,
and it is produced by small tree
about the size of ounce bush. TAc
smnoth, yellow frnits, which look lust
q little like small pears, are used only
in the fresh condition. They ripen in
May, have aa agreeable sub-acid flavor
and are particularly acceptable by rea-
son of their carliness.
Not yet, but soon to be, on the mar
ket is
TIE MARITZGULA,
q beautiful fruit, resembling huge
red cherry, somewhat elongated. It
comes from South Africa, where it is
used for jams, as we'll as fresh, and is
being produced in Florida and Califor-
MIA. The thorny, hedge-likc bush on
which it grows is fairly loaded
with the glossy daintics when they
ripcn.
Long grown in this country as an
ornamental plant, because Of its hand
some leaves and brilliant red flowers,
which have given it the popular name
Of burning bush,
THE JAPANESE OUNCE"
is now beginning to be utilized for it's
fruit. The latter, which is dull green
to golden yellow when ripe, makes de-
licious jcllies and preserves, as any
housewife may ascertain for herself by
North of New Jersey the
climate is too cold for it, but the plant
bears fruit satisfactorily up to that
latitude.
Within the last few years q number
of useful garden vegetables have been
introduced into this country by the
Chinese, who grow them for their
on carefully-tillcd farms
in the neighborhood Of the big cities,
and some of them are beginning
10 find their way into our mar
kets. Hce Of the best of them is a |
kind OF
CABBAGE, CALLED pE-TsAI,
which bears loose, lettucc-like head |
Of crisp leaves. Anothcr-known as
The "Chinese Observation-Disclosures like |
i hairy muskmcion, grows in the same
way, has flavor intermediate between
squash and cucumber, and makes de-
lightful preserves and sweet pickles.
Also there is variety Of "dish-cloth
yourd,' called in the Flowery Land
water squash" Which is the fruit of
cucumber-likc vine. 1t is slender and
cylindrical in shape, and sometimes
attains length Of nine feet in warm
ATTITUDES. Picked unripe, it is sliced
like cucumber, cooked like squash,
used in soups, or dried to keep it for
future consumption. The fibrous in
terror has spongclikc texture and,
when cured by drying, is sold as
vegetable sponge" At any apothc
cary shop nowadays ono may buy such
vegetable sponges, derived from gourds
of the same species, though of other
RENE bAcmE.
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