Indigenous fruits and vegetables are numerous, compris ing many kinds wholly unknown to the temperate zone. Sugar, cacao, coffee, and tobacco are the great staples, others in order of importance being bananas, oranges, lemons, cocoanuts, cotton, limes, pimento, indigo, nutmegs, maize, ginger, annatto, aloes, sassafras, castor-beans, yams, sweet potatoes, eddoes, manioc. The varied fruits include, be sides those mentioned, the mango, custard - apple, cashew, grape - fruit, pineapple, pomegranate, mamey, papaya, plan tain, shaddock, soursop, star-apple, sweet-sop, tamarind, chirimoya, avocado pear, granadilla, sapodilla, etc, etc. Many islands can boast forests of mahogany, fragrant cedar, lignum vitae, logwood, ironwood, green-heart, fustic, palms in many species, and scores of other valuable woods.
