Download or read book Cultivation of Neglected Tropical Fruits with Promise, Vol. 7 written by Franklin W. Martin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cultivation of Neglected Tropical Fruits With Promise, Vol. 7: The Durian Many efforts have been made to introduce the durian to the Tropics of the Western Hemisphere. Because the seeds are short lived, only potted seed lings have succeeded in shipments of plants, and predictably only in the high-rainfall areas of the Americas. The first durian to fruit outside Asia was in 1894 in Dominica (lesser Antilles) from plants sent from the Kew Botanical Gardens, England These trees were the source of plants for subse quent introductions to Trinidad, J amaica, and other Caribbean islands. Today there are many fruit bearing trees in the American Tropics, especially in dooryards of knowledgeable plantsmen and in the few botanical collections of the region, such as the Lancetilla Experimental Gardens in Honduras. There are, however, no large orchards or commer cial plantings. The reception of the durian in the American Tropics has been mixed, many people spurning it at first because of its strong smell, but an increasing number of people, particularly young people, have become fond of it. 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.