The pineapple of good stock and ripened on the plant is, I think, the most exquisite of all fruits.

A really ripe pine contains no fibre.

You cut the top off and sup the delicious mushy contents with a spoon.
In such a hot, steamy climate as we had in these tea districts, the rapidity of growth of vegetation is, of course, remarkable.

Bamboos illustrate this better than other plants, their growth being so much more noticeable, that of a young shoot amounting to as much as four inches in one night.

It sometimes appeared to my imagination that the weeds and grass grew one foot in a like period, especially when short of labour.