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... conversation under the particular circumstances ; but we happened to be conservatory; there was before us specimen the bread-fruit tree, and it was then fruiting, which led me to observe casually to one of the eldest, that it seemed a very singular thing ...
... con- Maize, or Indian corn, is native of Mexico, and was unknown in Europe until after the discoveries of Columbus. The bread fruit tree is a native of the South Sea Islands, particularly Otaheite. Tea is found a native nowhere except in China and Japan ...
... Mr. Williams and his missionary companions lived among savages, who sustained themselves on yams and the produce the bread fruit tree, and the Europeans were obliged to live in the same ■way. At the end of ten years they got ox and killed it,with view ...
... where their neighbours, leading easier lives under more favour- able conditions, remain poor. In countries where the bread fruit tree; the’ plantain, or thé cdcoa- palm grow, 80 that the liv @ without doing a month’s work, in a year, you will seldom find ...
... land wider wheat feeds 42 peotile ; under oats, 88 people ; under potatoes, Indian corn, rice, ; and under the plantain, bread fruit tree, over 6,000 people. Plant* grow faster and 6 a.m. than any tine during the day. seven in proportion than lions. _ ...
... shows some steps towards ¢ life. But talking of curious trees, we co throw have a better instance than the next, Py are BREAD FRUIT TREE of Otaheite, and other South Sea Islands ed for food in a variety of ways it thing Cte. very nourishing, and, therefore ...
... will leave our story, and chat for a little while about THE TREE, or Artocarpus integrifolia, which is a species of the bread fruit tree. The latter, originally found in the south-eastern parts of Asia, and the islands of the Pacific, though now introduced ...
... that it was the personal interest of George 111. that led to the introduction this fruit into the West Indies. In 1795 bread fruit trees were in fruit Jamaica for the first time, and samples were sent home for presentation to the King. Some years earlier ...
... £100 FOR BREAD FRUIT TREE. ■I , Virff* i'n . The story of the introduction of the l t tree into the West Indies told in the r' ■ the Jamaica Department of Agricultur . ruarv. The West India Committee states that an interesting letter Fuller, the Agent ...
... THE BREAD FRUIT TREE. trJo duC - tion of the hread-fruit tree into the West Indies is told the bulletin a, e e ater ter cular «i-> 4 6St - India Committee Circular states that an interesting letter from c P 7« - Full ,'- , from 1765 k ' i P ubhsh ed ...