Mangosteen

And I do feel moderately qualified to, oh my goodness, my husband's just arrived with a plate of mangosteen.

Oh my.

oh my goodness honey sorry this is oh wait let me just turn on my video look at this oh it's our own tree hang on get to see this I'll come back to gender in a second this is oh this is a they're not very ripe look at this Mangosteens, queen of fruit.

Wow, I've never seen the like.

What are they called? Mangosteen.

Harper's Young People, Volume 1, Issue 37, July 13, 1880.

The Mangosteen, from Advanced Sheets of the Boy Travelers in the Far East, Part 2, by Thomas W. Knox.

during their stay upon the island of java dr bronson and his young traveling companions took a trip on a railway from batavia to butzensorg in order that they might learn something of the interior of the island while on this trip the boys observed among other things that the trees in some instances grew quite close to the track Dr. Bronson explained to them that in the tropics it was no small matter to keep a railway line clear of trees and vines, and sometimes the vines would grow over the track in a single night.

It was necessary to keep men at work along the track to cut away the vegetation where it threatened to interfere with the trains, and in the rainy season the force of men was sometimes doubled.

Harper's Young People, volume one, issue 37, July 13th, 1880.

The Mangosteen, from Advanced Sheets of the Boy Travelers in the Far East, Part Second, by Thomas W. Knox.

During their stay upon the island of Java, Dr. Bronson and his young traveling companions took a trip on a railway from Batavia to Buitenzorg in order that they might learn something of the interior of the island.

While on this trip, the boys observed, among other things, that the trees in some instances grew quite close to the track.

The roots of the vines and trees become interlaced in the embankment on which the road is built and prevent its being washed away by heavy rains.

So you see there is, after all, a saving in keeping the railway in repair." At several of the stations, the natives offered fruit of different kinds and nearly all new to our young friends.

They had been told that they would probably find the mangosteen for sale along the road.

They had inquired for it in Singapore, but it was not in season there, and now their thoughts were bent upon discovering it between Batavia and Buitenzorg.