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Johnson Speechless

... expedition of Captain Bligh’s Bounty originated in the offer of a prize by members for successful transplanting of the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies. Bligh was successful and won the RS.A. Gold Medal. ~ The Great Exhibition of 1851 was another of ...

Published: Monday 07 September 1953
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LLONDON LETTER 63 Fieer Smeer, Sunday Night Resumption of Parliament

... His tombstone reads: 3 William Bligh, Vice-Admiral of the Blue, the celebrated navigator ‘who tirst transplanted the Bread Fruit Tree from Otaheita to the West Indies” He died aged 64 in 1817, . y Charles Wesley Another of London’s blue and white memorial ...

Published: Monday 19 October 1953
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1485 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BICENTENARY OF ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS

... famous expedition of the Bounty originated from the society's offer of a Fnu for the successful transplanting of the bread fruit tree to the West Indies. Captain Bleigh. on his second expedition, transplant not only bread fruit, but manv oth¢ . valuable ...

Published: Friday 19 March 1954
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1440 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Seychelles Sojourn — Second Ar•ticic

... lonely region between Kinlo c h- stick in one hand and -a stout short yen and Rannoch railway station large mango and bread fruit trees, gesture of tr i umph to me as spec- one in the other, a Creole walks is a fact that when the huge up steps, on terraces ...

Published: Tuesday 03 August 1954
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1996 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

New prop to whirl the city into life

... cylinders small patches of eggplants and yams, mangoes and papayas, while all round crowd ungainly kapok trees, jaggy-edeed bread fruit trees, and tall slim palms. SPLENDOUR This is the modern settlement on the Siem Reap river, but nearby, in 60 square miles ...

Published: Tuesday 30 June 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1058 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The finest display of

... the m‘- s v L o : He was sent back to the Pacific to carry out the original Bounty = mission. ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1978
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 396 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Green fingers of yesteryear

... in Oxford. Ahohrbhmt&fiovmd the secluded is Captain ydhlflmfi'fle one of their .-m'_s ;mmdmflogym as the man who took the bread fruit tree from Africa to the West Indies, where it flourished and still provides a element of the local diet. His tomb says that ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1990
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 485 | Page: 51 | Tags: none

A little potted history

... Tradescant, father and son, but of Captain Bli? of the Bounty whose horticultural achievements included transplanting the bread fruit tree from the Pacific to the West Indies, and ‘Eushed atthe 14th-century door of the vestry, I was 50 minutes overdue for ...

Published: Sunday 09 March 1997
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 68 | Tags: none