A WORD FOR THE NETTLE

... nevertheless, in ita family and alliances, maybe found some of the noblest members of the vegetable kingdom; such are the bread-fruit tree,the mulberry, the hop, the hemp, the fig, the stately banyan, ami the deadly upas. It is not for its botanical beauty ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1860
Newspaper: Coleraine Chronicle
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 745 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE KING OP THE PEEJEE ISLANDS. The Portrait of King Thackembau, Monarch of theFeeiee Islands, is engraved from ..

... Ambau, and Muthuata; they are generally mountainous, and of volcanic fonnation, but fertile and well-watered, producing bread-fruit trees, palms, cotton, and sugar. A letter from Eewa, the chief missionary station, dated Dec. 16, informs of fatal conflict ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1869
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1340 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

itrownott ( THE Romitt

... ethnological theory that they were Africans, or meant, by calling them that, to say that they were as lazy as Niggers. The bread-fruit tree, he declared, ought to have grown in the Highlands, when his countrymen might have lain on their backs till the fruit ...

VARIETIES

... —Stirving Times Under Canvas. By I. S. A. Herford. FIJIAN MISSION HOLlSE.—Through.a fine grove of cocoanut palms and bread-fruit trees, Mr. Fletcher kindly conducted us to his house, a commodious building thatched with leaves, surrounded by a fence and ...

Published: Monday 01 December 1862
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 760 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

RATHDOWN

... grand •pecunen Iffy wa# shows by Mr. W. H. Fry, end Lord Houck’, large group planta, one of which was the well-known bread-fruit tree, added considerably to an otherwise ohrtoe variety of Bower ■tends. Allogether, the Rathdown Horticulture! Society has ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1866
Newspaper: Irish Times
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: | Words: 789 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN GIPsIES IN ENGLAND

... extremely juicy and finely flavoured. In the Sandwich Islands, pigs are baked on hot stones, in pits, or in the leaves of the bread-fruit tree, on hot stones, covered over with earth during the operation of cooking. It is probable that the gipsy art of cooking ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1866
Newspaper: The Queen
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 824 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HURRICANE AT RA.ROTONCT'A, SOUTH PACIFIC

... and one laid in ruins. Great numbers of cocoa-nut trees snapped asunder, and not a few were torn up by the root!. The bread-fruit trees that remain aro stripped of their bark. There is not a banana or plantain tree standing, and our mission premisf s, so ...

Published: Friday 30 November 1866
Newspaper: British Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 758 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HURRICANE AT RAROTONGA, SOUTH PACIFIC

... and one laid in ruins. Great numbers of cocoa-nut trees snapped asunder, and not a few were torn up by the roots. The bread-fruit trees that remain are stripped of their bark. There is not a banana or plantain tree standing, and our mission premises, so ...

Published: Thursday 06 December 1866
Newspaper: Patriot
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 768 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

VARIETIES

... Elphinstone.—Stirring Times Under Canvas. By I. S. A. Word. FIJIAN HOUSE.—Through a fine grove of cocoanut palms and bread-fruit trees, Mr. Fletcher kindly conducted us to his house, a commodious building thatched with leaves, surrounded by a fence and ...

Published: Monday 01 December 1862
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

' _^ _EECEKTncws'from Norfolk _Island _, _tells of _^ the _' _diBsipatiqn _' _^ _' oi _^' ahothcrJ ' pretty

... oiir _readers ; who liave _forgotten . _their Jscho ' pl-boy _lore—rhad ' -collceted _^ thc _1 _greater _part of _the _bread-fruit _trees and _other , _Polynesian _iproducts-for . _- 'whicli she , had'bccn _^ scnt _^ out , thd . _tyranny : of _^ her . ; ...

Published: Monday 26 November 1866
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2120 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PROVINCIAL MARI ramars

... 'oat offered prizes for the cultivation of new fruits and vegetables, and solemnly be would predict, that as there was a bread-fruit tree, ere long there would bee bread and butter tree, and perhaps by successful grafting, even a plum pudding tree ! We believe ...

Published: Wednesday 16 October 1867
Newspaper: Express (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 814 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A Contest.—The unpop ularity which de- prived some of the Manchester councillors of their seats, through voting ..

... vertheless, in its family and alliances, may found some of the noblest members of the vegetable kingdom ; such are the bread-fruit tree, the mul berry, the hop, the hemp, the fig, the stately banyan, and the deadly upas. t is not for its botanical beauty ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 1860
Newspaper: Belfast Morning News
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1017 | Page: 4 | Tags: none