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VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF LA PEROUSE

... formof palifades, the pods of which, ' ced an oblique direction, K/ere e rahly near to each other ; within ''s grew bread-fruit trees, plantain - t? s, the corypba umhracuFifcra (great palm) &c. Further on, in or much lefs exteHt, we found hut, of conical ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1800
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4396 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS

... go to Venice in the courfe of September or fOC tober, to receive the oath of fidelity from their new fiibjeis. d The Bread Fruit Tree grows fpontaneoufly all e over the ifland of Amboyna, the cultivation of e which is very attentively obferved ; the fruit ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1802
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 749 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

WINDSOR CASTLE

... extend 20 feet. Nelson, the botanist, who accompained Captain Bligh to the South Seas, for the purpose of conveying the Bread Fruit Tree to the West Indies, when on Van Dieman's Land, found tree in thriving state of the enormous size of 33J feet in girth ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1829
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2353 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BREAD FRUIT TREE

... TT4E BREAD FRUIT TREE. A TALE OF THE SANDRWCIC. ISLES. (Froz the Trimes.) I'll tell you a tael of the. Southern Seas, You may larlgh at, or cry at-just as you please. Scant Vwee the growth of the Broad-fruit Tree On the banutiful Isle of Orwhyvee, While ...

KEtVB UR GU

... Suinfw '.ch hnds. , i°u • '»le the Southern Seas. I You may laugh at, or cry at—Just please. Scant was the growth of the Bread-fruit Tree On the beautiful Isle of Owhyhee, While, gift of Heaven ! it richly grew O’er the sunny fields of ; » And it seem’d Nature ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1833
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 2219 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LARCH FIR

... comparative good health, one half of the bean having come up on Monday last, and the other half on Tuesday. Plantain, or Bread Fruit Tree. —A very splendid specimen of this new variety of this celebrated native of the South Sea Islands, which is known to ...

Published: Thursday 24 November 1842
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6372 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THREE AND A lIAI E PER CENTS

... Fr..tu the other might swift wafted o’er. The ny arrayed trinkets made; While Owyhee well fed should by Woahou’s sweet bread fruit tree. Hut. alas! even happy isles like these Hate p> oplc upon iheiti called Grandees; And where there are lords. need not ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 1844
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 3258 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

... plants in the houses to them were the and cassia trees, palm, the date, palm (palm of Scripture bananas and plantains, bread fruit tree, rubber tree, of the numerous palms from , camphor tree, trees, coffee Holland, sugar cane, South America, and banyan ...

Published: Tuesday 27 April 1847
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8445 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITERARY GLEANINGS

... arrowroot, capsicum, and the sarsaparilla shrub. All these, and some others, I have seen and handled. The large and beautiful bread fruit tree abounds here, with very many other native fruit trees, most abundant in excellent fruit for the use of man : yet this ...