Golden Tips : a Description of Ceylon And Its Great Tea Industry
The book Golden Tips : a Description of Ceylon And Its Great Tea Industry was written by author Cave, Henry W. (Henry William), B. 1854 Here you can read free online of Golden Tips : a Description of Ceylon And Its Great Tea Industry book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Golden Tips : a Description of Ceylon And Its Great Tea Industry a good or bad book?
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It throws huge pods from the trunk and the larger branches, and suspends them by a thick short stalk. I have counted as many as eighty of these huge fruits upon one tree, some of them weighing as much as forty to fifty pounds. They are pale green in colour, with a granulated surface. Inside the rough skin is a soft yellow substance, and embedded in this are some kernels about the size of a walnut. This fruit often forms an ingredient in the native curries, but its flavour is not liked by Europe...ans. Elephants, how- ever, are very fond of it, and its great size would seem to make it an appropriate form of food for these huge beasts. After the elephant in our pic- ture on page 369 had been photographed, he was rewarded with a feast of this fruit, which grew plentifully on the trees upon the banks of the river. X* 358 REST-HOUSES. One circumstance should make this district a very popular resort for travellers, who too frequently see only the towns, and leave Ceylon without an idea of pure Singhalese life, or of the beauty of the tropical scenery of the low-country valleys.
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