Excerpt from Out of Doors for Women, Vol. 1 T he small apricots were hardly to be recognized - scarcely as large as plums but of fair flavor. A good drummer should be able to sell every tree in the nurseries of California, if he were to travel one season through Mexico with truthful representations of our fruit. At Irapuato the natives offer the passengers of the Mexican Central railway fine strawberries the year round. The tourist is often disappointed to find only one layer of the large lusciousberries on the top of his basket, but he will find the small berries that fill the bulk of the basket just as sweet, and if philosophical in mind will congratulate himself on having thrice as many ber ries for his money as if they were all large! The native fruits were mostly pleasant, though some are not at first palatable, until a taste has been acquired for them. The Mango, Mammee, Sapotas, Anonas, Pineapples and Bananas iwere all duly tested, but in general pronounced inferior to our temperate fruits. Another surprise was to find potatoes, raised in California, upon the table in Mexico City - where I was told they retail at twenty. Five cents per pound! (at wholesale bringing eight cents per pound). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.