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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15901, 12 April 1912, Page 2

Of all the vegetables- which furnish nourishment to man, the banana is tin most prolific. A single cluster often contains from 160 to 180 pods, and weighs from sixty to eighty pounds. Humboldt says that a piece of land of 120 square yards will produce 4000 pounds’ weight of fruit, while the sam* area will rarely produce more thaj, thirty pounds’ weight of meal, aa eighty pounds of potatoes.