... locality in which it is found, the fat- tailed sheep is as special a boon of Providence to man, as the cocoa nut or the bread fruit tree. All things considered, it is evident that though living in great filth and savagery, few people enjoy greater abundance ...

... also exposed, their preservation is very doubtful tfur the next three months. Two very, fine specimens of the Kaffir bread fruit - tree we noticed, and the curiously-looking elephants foot plant ; also a splendid American acre (Agave Americana), several ...

... content, without fear of frost or pruning. Some specimens of the curious India rubber or caout- chouc tree, and the Caffre bread fruit tree, the singular looking elephant's foot plant, and a splendid American aloe, are also among the colleotion already in the ...

... geoene term applied to all newconfei. in tbe Ea.t:-“In the course of eonver.atiou, I beird Spark, asking our host, whether bread-fruit tree, ne.r hi* est.t., and exprewiog bis to ie ons. ’ Certaioly,’ raid Hop. ; pa.Md ecrsl of Ibem to-day. If you coma out ...

... attempts had, consequently, been made to cultivate the tree in our West India colonies, but without success. Though the bread fruit tree yields a largeE amount of food, thre, or four trees being sufficient for the support of one individual throughout the ...

... native. Maize or Indian corn is a native of Mexico, and was unknot in Europe until after the discoveries of Columbus. The bread fruit tree is a native of the South Sea Islands, particularly ' Otaheitd 'Tea isi fund anative nowhere- except in China and Japan ...

... was ecut in that vessel by Corcrnnient, with Mr. Cunitiuv as his Chief Mate, to Tahiti, to convey young plants of the bread fruit tree the West Indies, Wc need not go into details of the mutiny on leaving the island, the entire annihilation of the object ...

... and dor* the tun go down in this country with such clap that?’’ Bachelors, Beware.— An Aloe planted near the withering bread fruit tree causes it to revive and become «a good new. similar (set shows itself among the oalico family.” Pleat good looking wife ...

... ran up to and embraced it, exclaiming, with tears in his eyes, Tree of country! Tree my country!' Here also we find the bread fruit tree, and countless other?, all possessing remarkable properties of form, beauty foliage, variety of colour, peculiarity of ...

... World Kew Gardens —The - 'aco lattice leaf plant from Madagascar; the banyan or sacred fi>f tree of the Hindoos: the bread fruit tree of tbo South Sea Islands the sensitive or telegraph plant of Repeal; the rtee paper plant of China, sent Sir John Rowring; ...

... Society in London and Elinburgh.—Clerkenwell Musical Association. —The Works of Edward Walsh —lllustrated Natural History; Bread Fruit Tree and Cocoa Tree.—F,nghnil's Ecclesiastical Revolution.—Monument to Rev. Dr. Lanigan.—Young Men's Societies.—Varieties ...

... inhabitants with food. In the islands of the South Sea grain of every kind disappears, its place being supplied by the bread fruit tree and pisang plantains. In the tropical parts of New Holland there is agriculture, the inhabitants living the produce of ...