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... { rom the Brazils ; the oil palm , from the West Coast of Africa ; the arrowroot plantfrom tlia Wfeafc Itollta ; tlie bread fruit tree ; the balsam ot Peru , a very rare plant in this country , used for cheat disorders i the date palm ; the annato plant ...
... useless to recount . The character and beauty of eacli variety must he Been tn be understood . New types of the musa , or bread fruit tree , catch the eye , as also of the ticua genus , from which ladiaTubber is made ; while a rarity o { a maidenhair fern ...
... curiosity . There are , among- many others , the Arabiau coffee p lant , the tea plant , sugar cane , Paraguay tea , cocoa , bread fruit tree , black pepper , and the gruesome upas tree ; oil palm , cinnamon tree , Egyptian paper plant , lemon grass , lignum ...
... fishing industry promoted with good results . The principal fruits grown in the islands are pine-apples , limes , the bread fruit tree , a-nd mangoes . It is no uncommon thing to see pine-apples weighing 20 Ib . each , and equal in quality to anything ...
... this country in 1525 , though probably it was introduced both by the Romans and the monks . The orange species , the bread fruit tree , the banana , the cocoa-nut , dates , and pine-apple were in 'turn dealt with , Mr Chapman remarking that the last-mentioned ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...