THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago AND ITS POLITICAL DEPENDENCIES, Embracing the whole Period of Spanish Rule. BY JOHN FOREMAN, F.R.G.S. SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED, WITH MAPS AND ILLU STRATIONS. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. 1899.
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"Attempts have been made to acclimatize the Grape in the Philippines, but with very mediocre results. Cebut seems to be the island most suitable for vine culture, but the specimens of fruit produced can bear no comparison with the European. In Naga (Cebu Island), I have eaten green Figs grown in the orchard of the house where I sojourned. There are a great many other kinds of fruits of a comparatively inferior quality, which are chiefly used by the natives to make preserves."
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