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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