Pawpaw Trees in Fruit, Wynnum

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Pawpaw for Xmas Hampers

The pawpaw is a magic fruit of the jungles of the tropics in northern Queensland. it bears a noble crop in plantations from the Endeavour River to the Tweed, and its ripened golden-fleshed gourds provide Queenslanders with a deliciously refreshing and sustaining fruit of great medicinal virtue. Whilst it is not effectively transported in a ripe state to the great markets of southern cities, when this fruit is cooked and prepared in preserves, salads, and chutneys, its exceeding great value is made to be widely appreciated. The Queensland Preference League by its enterprise in selling Christmas hampers containing various preserves of the golden pawpaw, to be delivered as presents from Australians to their friends overseas, is doing much towards popularising the pawpaw and extending a valuable export trade. With over 20 other products of Queensland’s orchards, fields, and farms a compact hamper

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