... zone are two endemic palms, the widely spread cocoanut palm, a screw pine(also having a wide geographical area), and the bread fruit tree. The total absence of native figtrees is remarkable, especially as they succeed well and exist in many Pacific islands ...

... 118' in the shade. In this part of the island, where the vegetation was remarkable for its extraordinary variety, the bread fruit tree (Artocarpns) attained its largest growth, its rich green foliage and round pendant fruit rendering it an attractive and ...

... the present position, and this week a Continental demand is manifest, pecking off the best fruit from the Californian bread fruit tree, because the Australian branches are bare in 1889, whereas in 1888 a million and a half of quarters of wheat was available ...

... to converse with the educated inhabitants of the oountry. BOORS RECEIVED. Adventures of ELMS. Bounty in search of the Bread Fruit Tree. 1781. An Account of one of the same family existing Britain, deepised from its repulsive appearance, but by Dods bounty ...

... smooth that the joints can hardly be detected. Any caulking required is done by • kind of resin, made, I believe, from the bread fruit tree, whilst cocoanut fibre makes a very fair substitute for oakum. The camakan is the cli craft of Figi unlike the dens ...

... much of Australia, only on a much more luxuriant scale; doubtless owing to the greater moisture of the atmosphere. The bread fruit tree seems to thrive splendidly in New Guinea, although by no means a p opular article of diet with the native. Wild pigs ...