ABSTRACT
When we speak, in England, of cocoa-nuts we mean generally the well-known coker-nut, as it was formerly spelt, a fruit that grows in bunches under the ‘ tender coco's drooping crown of plumes ; ’ but we are now with Dr. Grainger in ‘ the cacao-walk which teems with marrowy pods ; ’ the cocoa-nuts from which a beverage is made are the beans or seeds of a smaller tree, the cacao of the genus theobroma, Gr. food for the gods. The pods, which seldom contain less than thirty nuts of the size of a flattened olive, grow upon the stem and the principal branches. The nuts are extremely nutritious, and are imported principally from Trinidad and Grenada in the British West Indies, and Ecuador and New Grenada.
