Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — The Loquat. [ARTICLE]

The Loquat.

The loquat is a fruit about the color of an apricot, one and a half inches in length and one inch in diameter. The seeds are small and the flavor like the cherry, delicate, sub-acid, and good. A gentleman near New Orleans, who has trees twenty feet in height on his farm, declares that for eating fresh, for sauce, and for pies the loquat has no superior. The fruit does not easily pull from the stem, and, in order to ship a long distance, the stem must be* cut so as to avoid breaking the pulp. The loquat is grown from seeds with the greatest ease, also from cuttings and layers. In form it is globular and one and one-fourth inches in diameter. It begins to ripen in April and contintinues until the first week in July.