The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26
The PomeIo or Grapefruit.

The POmelO or Grapefruit.
writer in the Florida Agriculturist
has the following to say of this splen-
did medicinal fruit:
I'VE believe it to be the most valu-
able fruit on the globe, to-day, of all
the tropical varieties if not the supe-
rior of any varieties elsewhere. Con-
templating an attempt at describing
it's virtues we can hardly decide where
to begin, nor where to end, nor how
we shall find language adequate to do
justice to it's virtues. We think, how
ever, when feasts for the eye are <on-
suited that nothing is a grander feast
to behold than a matured grapefruit
tree laden with bright fruit, from the
top down to the ground and clusters
of them resting on the earth, as many
are, now in our groves" Said a gen.
tleman, here, few weeks ago, when
STOPPING under one of the heavy laden
trees and looking up and down, and
around, Il never saw the like before,
nor anybody else that never saw this"
and he was raised in South Florida.
Such is evidently "a feast to the eye.
Turning next to it's medicinal prop
critics, enough has been demonstrated
to convince any reasonable mind of it's
inestimable value to the health of all
mankind the world over. And, if it
could be introduced, simply, in all the
large towns and cities, even, in Amer
lea as it has in only a few of them,
barring the many in foreign nations.
ten Floridas planted to grapefruit
could not supply the demand for it.
Referring, further to it's medicinal
properties. the evidence obtainable at
the hands of our wisest physicians in
a few of our large Northern cities is
so overwhelming in its favor that no
effort at discount on its value need
be attempted. In my own personal
experience / can conscientiously testi-
fly to it's benefits, as since l have been
freely using it much, if not most of
the time for the past three years. Now
at 70 years of age, or nearly so, l am
enjoying better health than for TWEEN
ty-five years past. And l am now
surprised at my folly in not learning
to eat it many years ago. The taste
for 1t, however has to be cultivated,
of course, same as that of many 9TH
err tropical varieties, and this | never
tried to do until l grew it myself. And,
now, | want it at every meal and but
few pass without 1t. l can eat it
now before meals, with my meals Cor
as part of them) and after my
meals, with perfect safety to digestion
as it is far healthier for digestion
than the orange. 1t can be eaten even
late in the afternoon with impunity,
which l cannot say for either oranges,
guavas, or even apples in my case. To
relieve thirst and satisfy the craving
disposition to eat between meals, and
especially to allay a desire to drink,
where, or when, water fails to satisfy
nothing can equal it. 1t is a perfect
feast to laborer in the winter and
hn he xKh Inn
pleasantly warm, and too much IA
tigued to suck the juice from a fine
grapefruit-to open the peel, and
gnaw out the depleted but healthful
and nourishing rag and pulp, while the
juice extracted and a little sugar and
water added makes the most delicious
ade imaginable.
THE juice of one fruit, too, instead
of baking powders, will make enough
for biscuit, sufficient for a large fam
lily and is far preferable to any bak-
ing powders on earth if grapefruit
didn't sell for ten cents and upwards.
And, 1t is evidently far more healthy
in bread than any of the powder prep
arations. But, another grand feature
is, there is, if understood, no waste
about this fruit. The thick rind, US
ually thrown out, can be fed to mich
COWS. l have seen cows accustomed
10 lneIn, take the small fruits In
whole and chew them up, as Northern
cows do apples. But these peels
make the finest quality of preserves
perfectly delicious-while the whole
fruit makes the most palatable mar
melade. No, no waste to the grape
fruit if you know how to handle it.
AS far as the bitter taste is concerned
we can furnish a recipe that removes
all that from the preserves, but
many, once accustomed to it, prefer
the bitter in a degree. In that is
the quinine-the medical property ia
dispel malaria and relieve biliousness.
And. l can say, further. that the use
of 1t, or something else. has so far re-
lieved me from nasal-catarrh (from
which. in years past, l have suffered
greatly that l now feel scarcely any
symptoms of it at all. And, as l aban-
doned the use of catarrh remedies
about two years ago, can you blame
me for giving credit to the use of the
grapefruit for my improvements
| through the improvement of my
blood? l shall claim it until you dis
| prove it.
"Oh, N.Y." says one. haven't you an
ak to grind?" Why. no! bless your soul
we've quit grindin' axes in our
1 house-haven't time to do anything
/ but bud the grapefruit on lemon stock
! and see the fruit. Want to buy some
/ shipped to order?