The Cocoanut is perhaps the most important of all the shell fruits, if we may judge by the variety of uses to which the nut and the tree which bears it can be put.

The cocoanut as found in commerce is the nut divested of its outer sheath, and is much smaller in size than when seen upon the tree.

Cocoanuts are a product largely of the eastern end of the island, although produced in fair supply elsewhere.

"After all," he broke silence, "those cocoanuts came time enough.