Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1907 — Gooseberries on Trees. [ARTICLE]

Gooseberries on Trees.

Travelers In Burma see many strange things, and perhaps one of the strangest is the way in which some kinds of fruit grow. For instance, gooseberries that at home grow on small bushes in this part of the world grow on trees over twenty-five feet high. They are not a soft, pulpy fruit, but are as hard as marbles. The real Burman grapes also grow on high trees and not on vines. They hang from the branches and trank of the tree in* clusters on a long stalk and are covered with a thick outer skin, which cannot be eaten. The cachou, or monkey nut, is also peculiar and consists of a large, juicy fruit of soft pulp, with its nut or kernel attached to the outside of the fruit at the end farthest from the stalk from which it hangs.—London Standard. • .