... conspicuons peak caled 'A nm's Look-out; and the Unon Jack was foweld flying from the staff close by the church. i 'Tlhe bread fruit tree appears likely to flourish again, as a i they are carefully propagating it. I saw several very t leilthy looking ones ...

... require shoes, stockings, and prints for dresses. Excessive rain has consider. ablv interfered with theyamrn crop, but the bread. fruit tree appears likely to Rlosirish again, and cocton is being cultivated. The primitive existence or these people, far from ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Society Islands. She is in command ot Lieutenant William Bligh, and has been sjioriaily fitted to convey specimens of the bread- fruit tree from Tahiti to the West Indies in thehope tbat the tree may there be:'ome aeolimatised. Onthenear approach of the jailing ...

... boats of the sasdal-wood traders. 'The party burnt several vil- lages, and destroyed great quaotities of cocoanut and bread fruit trees, also hannana, yams, &c. Unfortu- nately Mr. Edward M. Tupper, mate; Captain. Barrack, and two men were separated in ...

... descendants of the tsuti- neers of the ship Bounsty, which in 1783 was sent by the British Government to Tahiti after bread-fruit trees for the West Indies. In April, 1739, a few days after leaving Tahiti, a portios of the creiv snutinied, and set thcs ...

... offered prizes for the cultivation of al new fruits and vegetables and solemnly he would predict, to that as there was a bread-fruit. tree, ere long there wou he be a bread and butter tree, and perhaps by successful ,he gafin, even a plum pudding tree!I We ...

... vain, nor even long. Again the bird or the breeze brings the wanting seed, from which emerges the cocoa-nut tree, or the bread-fruit tree, or some other useful or splendid growth of the Southern Seas. Indeed the single germ may produce the tree, and frogu ...

... and squares. The harbour looks like a lake, its outlet being almost concealed by a promontory covered vith palms and bread-fruit trees. The German Mission lately occupied the house of the company, but had to leave on account of the rebellion, which has ...

... consists of a kind of small lizard, crabs, and a few wild pigeons, while the flora is confined to the cocoa palm and bread-fruit tree. The principal island, Jalnit, is about thirty square miles in extent, and has a population of about a thousand. Yet ...

... John's is every- where, and the Ipomea pescaprx. All the tropical trees seem richer than I have seen them elsewhere; the/ bread-fruit trees loaded with fruit. People say the fower season is past, but I find enough, as usual; many of the flowers I saw in Natal ...