... was given command of the Bounty, which was to sail to the South Seas to bring back from Tahiti some young specimens the bread fruit tree, which it was hoped to introduce in the West Indies One of his officers was Fletchei Christian, a young Manxman, destined ...

... Oronoco” —essential for enjoying life in Aughnacloy. And there is a lesson on the *“ Uses of Vegetables —all about the bread fruit tree of the Pacific Ocean and the cabbage tree of East Florida — information very handy for people whose staple diet was spuds ...

... of a prize for the successful transplanting of the bread fruit tree to the West Indies. Captain Bligh, on his second expedition in the Providence succeeded in transplanting not only bread-fruit trees but • host of other valuable plants to the West Indies ...