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Field Museum of Natural History

northern hemisphere, and the full amount of light not only does no harm, but may even be desirable. During the rest of the year, when shade is required, these shade trees are in foliage.

The rapidly increasing use of cacao, particularly in the form of sweets, bids fair to keep pace with production for some time to come.

B. E. Dahlgren



In the Hall of Plant Life, Hall 29, on the second floor east, may be seen a reproduction of a Cacao tree bearing flowers and fruit, also an enlarged flower, a fruit in section, cacao "beans" and a pod of the Tiger Cacao.

The economic exhibit of Cacao is to be found among the vegetable food products on the south side of the adjoining Hall 25.

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