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Tse Narsve Country or Dirrerenr Vecera- Bie Propuctions.— The patatoe is a native of Seuth America, and ..

... native. Maize or Indian Corn is a native of Mexico, and was unknown in Europe until after the discovery of Columbus. The bread fruit tree is a native of the South Sea articularly Otaheite. found nowhere except in China and Japan, from which country the world ...

Published: Thursday 15 December 1836
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 900 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NORTH DEVON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

... gorgeous Ceitus Speciosissimns havingabove 30 perfect flowers upon it, a luxuriant sample of ibe Musa Cavendishii (or bread fruit tree). very lo.'ty double-red Lfibisca-, from the gardens of Forth;!!, attracted attcotiou ; from its majestic appearance: ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 1848
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4634 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

... government vessel, 9«>nt to the South Seas, under the command of Captain Biigh, about the year 1790, to procure plants the bread fruit tree for cultivation, in the West Indies. The mutiny of the Bounty, and the conduct Christian, the leader of the mutineers ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1852
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1215 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Literary, Scientific, Historical, &c

... nevertheless, in its family and alliances ma 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, and the deadly upas. It has not been with- out its af ...

Published: Thursday 17 May 1860
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4501 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GENERAL NEWS

... until broakfast- was euanduneed. 'What a gatrden l A fecx English vegetables seemed doing well, beside them its'. s bread' fruit tree, with fruits and buds thereoni ; a covered with young fruit, some bananas, arid some iv. 'sot pRitin, all thrifty; Indian ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1872
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 8368 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

x E ATtRDAY AUGUST 3 1S72 EXETER BOTANICAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY more what promised to he a most successful ..

... was very fine Allocasia Zebrina three or four specimens of newly introduced plant the Superba the Abyssinian Banana or bread fruit tree The palms included Cycas Devoluta Seaforthia Elegans Pritchardia Pacifica i-c There specimen the New Zealand variegated ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1872
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4090 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION

... humiltg) and two of the pretty striped leaved yucca akcifolia. The collection orchids at the higher end of tent included bread fruit tree and other natives foreign climes. Several Cape everlastings were close company with such tropical plants the ■ni'iranta ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2372 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION

... the humUis) and two the pretty striped leaved yucca The collection of orchids at the higher end of the tent included a bread fruit tree and other natives of foreign climes. Several Cape everlastings were close alongside company with such tropical plants ...

Published: Tuesday 24 June 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2311 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LONDON STOOK NXCIII4.2OIN

... dish thoy prepare at their feas is of grief, In whieh I was booked to do duty for beef. 'Tie made up in dough from the bread fruit tree, With a layer of gorilla and chimpanzee ; And young Hippotamas, cut in junks, Then kangaroo's noses, and elephant's trunks ...

Published: Thursday 17 September 1874
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 4690 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AMNESTY TO THE INSURGENTS

... coccanut, bread fruit, mango, banana, and other fruit trees wero blown down. In the yard of the revenue ...

Published: Monday 30 November 1874
Newspaper: Western Daily Mercury
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SALE OF FIREARMS

... that distinguished novelist, and was much disappointed to end nothing written in them. Iv is strange that though the bread fruit tree luxuriates in Ceylon, yet it is almost totally ignored by the natives. In Guam this valuable tree grows Larger than oar ...

Published: Friday 29 April 1892
Newspaper: Teignmouth Post and Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 698 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SALE OF FIREARMS

... that distinguished novelist, and was much disappointed to find nothing written in them. IT is strange that though the bread fruit tree luxuriates in Ceylon, yet it is almost totally ignored by the natives. In Guam this valuable tree grows larger than our ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1892
Newspaper: Exmouth Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 603 | Page: 2 | Tags: none