Speaker 1: Section eighteen, Birds and All Nature, Volume seven, two February
Speaker 1: nineteen hundred red for Librevox dot Org by Larry Wilson.
Speaker 1: Vegetation in the Philippines. Much attention has of late been
Speaker 1: devoted to the Philippines, and as one result, considerable interests
Speaker 1: has been evinced in their natural products. In the matter
Speaker 1: of vegetation, they are highly favored. Fruits grow in great abundance,
Speaker 1: and the reputation of some of them is already established abroad,
Speaker 1: as is the case, for example, with the mango. Other
Speaker 1: fruits grown in the Islands are the eight the cinnamon
Speaker 1: apple of the French colonists, the mangoestine, the pine apple,
Speaker 1: the tamarind, the orange, the lemon, the jack and the jujub,
Speaker 1: the lechi, regarded by the Chinese as the king of fruits,
Speaker 1: the plum, the chickamami, the sopodea of the West Indies,
Speaker 1: the bread fruit, and the papa. The last named is
Speaker 1: eaten like a melon and is valued as a digestive.
Speaker 1: Its juice furnishes an extract which is used as a
Speaker 1: medicament under the name of pappang or vegetable Pepsin the
Speaker 1: banana grows abundantly and is a great boon to the
Speaker 1: poor people, supplying them with a cheap, delicious, and exceedingly
Speaker 1: nutritive food. There are many varieties, ten of which are
Speaker 1: in particular highly esteemed. Plants which are cultivated for industrial
Speaker 1: purposes include the sugar cane, of which four varieties are grown,
Speaker 1: yellow cane, oothahit cane, purple are batavia cane, and striped cane.
Speaker 1: Of vegetables, there are several pulses used as food by
Speaker 1: the natives which never appear on the tables of the
Speaker 1: European settlers. These include the mango mentioned above, and three
Speaker 1: or four kinds of bees, such as the bingae, the zabacee,
Speaker 1: the abrabene, and the potami. Being these suit the neetties
Speaker 1: much better than the garbanzos or chickpeas that are so
Speaker 1: highly prized by the Spaniards. Among the tuberus roots valued
Speaker 1: as food, the sweet potato ranks first, with an annual
Speaker 1: production of ninety eight million pounds. The common or white potato,
Speaker 1: although of inferior quality, stands next in importance. Then follows
Speaker 1: the kemiltengatchoi or manihot cassava, the root of which is
Speaker 1: made edible by the removal of its poisonous juice in
Speaker 1: the same way as in the West Indies. After expression
Speaker 1: of the juice, the pulp forms a sort of coarse
Speaker 1: grained flour that is very nutritious, pleasant to the taste,
Speaker 1: and easy to digest. Besides these tubers, other plants such
Speaker 1: as ubi, the tougui and the gabi are cultivated in
Speaker 1: the fields for the sake of their edible roots. Other
Speaker 1: edible vegetables include calabashes, melons, watermelons, cucumbers, carrots, celery, partially tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, capers, cabbages, lettuce,
Speaker 1: in dives, mustard, leaks, onions, asparagus, and peas. Of the
Speaker 1: cocoa palm, the ordinary cocoanut tree is the most important,
Speaker 1: the oil of which is put to many and varied juices.
Speaker 1: The bamboo is much valued, the young and tender shoots
Speaker 1: making a very acceptable article of food in the form
Speaker 1: of salads or other dishes, and the fibers used for
Speaker 1: numerous purposes. Tobacco as a cultivated crop is generally grown
Speaker 1: in the same field as maize. Of spices, the Philippines
Speaker 1: grow cinnamon, nutmegs, pepper, ginger, and majoram of medicinal plants,
Speaker 1: the most familiar are the papa already mentioned and epicaurona.
Speaker 1: Among aromatic and ornamental plants may be mentioned Magnolias, Camellias clematis,
Speaker 1: several kinds of roses, dolls, elong elong papua jasmine, and
Speaker 1: many species of orchids and ferns. These, however, grow wild
Speaker 1: in such profusion that little cares bestowed upon their cultivation
Speaker 1: Gardner's Magazine, end of section eighteen. This recording is in
Speaker 1: the public domain.