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BANANAS
The banana has made rapid
~ irides
in the past twenty years as a universal
food staple.
It
is found and eaten: in
the remotest towns of European countries.
where not many years ago it was totally
unknown~
its wonderful merits as a
nutririve product having been extolled
by medical faculties and its intensive
cultivation pressed.
Within a generation the West Indies
and Central America have developed an
mmense trade in bananas which are
exported throughout the world. The