173 EiORTUS JAMAICENSIS. sn,.Dnr c% 



you plant the seed, there is but one in a whole shaddock that will bring forth good aid 

 pleasant fruit; I have seen many of them planted and come to bear, but never saw a 

 1 one produced from the seed. The best way is to take a stem or a twig, and in- 

 ft or innoculate i,t on a 'good China orange stock, &c. The fruit is cooling and ro- 

 bing, abating drought and heat in fevers. Durham, p. 173. 



The shaddocks in general are but indifferent fruit, most of them inclining to a white 

 pulp or fresh, and a watery bitterish juice, greatly inferior to the East-India Fruit. Mr. 

 Miller accounts for this, by remarking, that by constantly raising these trees from the 

 .seeds, the fruit degenerates continually; whereas if the inhabitants would only bud or 

 innoculate from the good sort, they might have it in as great plenty as they pleased ; 

 but that they resign tiie whole to nature, seldom giving themselves any further trouble 

 than to put the seels in the ground, and leave them to grow as nature shall incline. 

 This observation of bis is perfectly true; and, perhaps, their practice is not so much 

 the effect of carelessness, as the want of knowing how to perform the innoculation ; 

 for which reason I shall give the method recommended by that ingenious writer, which 

 is very practicable in Jamaica, and where we may hope to see it adopted; since it is 

 surely some satisfaction to possess so favourite a fruit in its most perfect and delicious 

 state, whether for consumption within the island or for exportation. The manner of y 

 performing the inn emulation is as follows : yon must be provided with a sharp penknife,. 

 having a flat haft, (the use of which is to raise the bark of the stock to admit the bud), 

 and some sound mat, which should be soaked in watel to increase its strength, for this 

 purpose various barks used for making ropes will answer equally well, Having taken 

 off the cuttings or young shoots from the trees to be propagate;!, take a smooth part c 

 the stock, five or six inches above the ground, ifdesi -dwarfs, but if for stand- 



ar Is, they should be budded six feet above the ground ; then, with your penknife, cut 



. horizontal mark across the rind, and, from the middle of that cut, make a slit down- 

 wards, about two inches in length, s i that it may be in form of a T; but you must be 

 careful not to eul he stock; then cut off the leaf from 



the bud, leaving the footstalk, and make a cross cut about half an inch below the eye 

 v.'aA slit offthe bu I, with part of-the wood to it, in form oi in et cutcheon. This done, 

 puli off with the, knife : of the wood which was taken with the bud, observing 



whether the eye.bi the bud b I sfi to it or not, (for all those buds that lose their eyes 

 in stripping should be thrown away, being useless) ; then, having gently raised the bark 

 of the stock, where the Tinci >u was made, with the flat haft of the knife, clear to the 

 wood, thrust the bu 1 therein, observing to place it smooth between the rind and the 

 wood of the stock, rutting off auv part of the rind belonging to the bud which may be 

 too long for the slit m tde in the stock, and, having c saetly fitted the bud to the stock, 

 tii them clos< id, beginning at the lower part of the slit, anjd proceeding to the 



top. taking care not to hind round the eve of the bud, which should beleft.open 

 When the bu Is have been innoculate I two or three we, ks, those whicti remain piuinp 

 and fresh are joined, and the bandage must be loosened, which, it not d me in time, 

 will pinch the stock, and greatly injure, if not destroy, the buvi. Long, p. 10 . 



FORBIDDEN FRl'lT. 



Fructa sph.-erico ovqto minore, cortice <rqualivesicula'o pallide luted, 

 petit is a atis. Browne, p. 30y. 

 This is considered as only a variety of the shaddock, but the fruit is much smaller, 

 having a thin, tough, smooth, pale yellow, rind, and the tree isuo& near so graceful 



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