This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
By a casual expression we judge that the recent learned editorial in a Philadelphia newspaper on planting cocoanuts along the Jersey coast, was made up by an "intelligent correspondent" - that is to say, a wise reporter in a fifth story of a printing office - from a paragraph in a London paper referring to the fruiting of the Chili Pine, or Araucaria imbri-cata. These fruits were said to be " twice the size of the ordinary cocoanut," and the "intelligent correspondent" aforesaid, who (in imagination) saw the trees along the coast, got "cocoanut" in his mind, and thus became a mixed being.
 
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