ARTICLE. VALUE POUNDS STERLING. Maize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,965,000 Cotton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,340,000 Henequen (Sisal hemp) . . . . . . . . 2,933,500 Sugar-cane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,644,000 Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,215,200 Coffee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,508,700 Chilli peppers . . . . . . . . . . . 950,000 Frijoles (beans) . . . . . . . . . . 933,200 Pulque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800,000 Tobacco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606,800 Barley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562,500 Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273,000 Mezcal (spirits) . . . . . . . . . . 256,000 Ixtle fibre . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202,000 Pease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,000 Chocolate (cacao) . . . . . . . . . . 160,000 Chewing gum . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,000 Tequila (spirits) . . . . . . . . . . 135,000 Other spirits . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,500 Potatoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,300 Peanuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,800 Sweet potatoes . . . . . . . . . . . 71,000 White beans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,200 Vetch (_alfalfa_) . . . . . . . . . . 54,000 Sesame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,000 Crude india-rubber . . . . . . . . . 44,300 Yucca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,100 [Footnote 35: Compiled from the Mexican Year Book, 1908.] These, with other minor matters, give a total for the annual value of agricultural products, of approximately 27,500,000 pounds sterling. _Fruit Culture_.--A wide range of fruits are grown and marketed throughout the different climatic regions of Mexico, and the following list of these is of much interest to horticulturists:--Alligator pears (_ahuacates_), _ciruelas_ (plums), cocoanuts, apricots, apples, dates, peaches, strawberries, pomegranates, guavas, figs, limes, lemons, mamey,[36] mangoes, melons, quinces, oranges, nuts, pears, pineapples, bananas, tunas (the fruit of the nopal), grapes, zapote. The considerable trade in these will be gathered from the fact that its value yearly amounts to more than 1,000,000 pounds sterling. [Footnote 36: This strange fruit is known as "the fruit of the Aztec kings."]