... ginger plant, in a healthy growth; a Chinese rice paper plant, supposed to the finest specimen in the United Kingdom ; the bread fruit tree, indigenous to the South Pacific Islands; the cow tree, also a native of the southern latitudes, and justly prized for ...

... fear, in our country only fit for a hothouse.” The locust bean is the Ceratonia siliqua; it is also called St. John's bread fruit tree; it has been long time an inhabitant of our greenhouses, and we don’t know that it has ever been tried whether hardy ...

... specimen ? Heligoland. Are the locust and lick bean the same?— The locust b«an is the carol* bean, or seed St. John’s bread fruit tree; quite distinct from the tick. The latter is an annual plant; the former tree, requiring the protection of greenhouse ...