6.42 A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



The Bermuda Company also sent the seeds of the Black Mulberry 

 in 1025. They spoke of them in a letter to Governor Woodhouse, 

 as the seeds of "the greate black and best sort of mulberrye "; the 

 fruit " very wholsome and goode." 



There is no record of sending the American or Red Mulberry. 



In March, 162V, an act was passed by the Assembly requiring 

 every owner or sharer of land to plant 50 mulberry trees on every 

 share of land for three successive years. No mention is made of 

 any importation of seeds at that time, so that they probably were to 

 have been cuttings from those planted in 1016. Although some silk- 

 worms were raised in that period, they were not of commercial 

 importance. 



Bread Fruit. (Artocarpvs incisa L.) 



Introduced at Mt. Langton by Governor Lefroy, in 1874, and 

 appeared " likely to thrive." Native of the East Indies. 



Jack Fruit. (A. integrifolia L.) 



Cultivated at Par-la- Ville. A large East Indian tree, allied to the 

 Bread-fruit, but with larger fruit and entire leaves. The seeds are 

 edible when cooked. 



Tamarind Plum. (Chlorophora tinctoria Don. = Madura xanthoxy- 

 lon Nutt.) 



Cultivated in a few gardens in Paget Parish. Introduced, about 

 L865, from the West Indies. Fruit ripens in September. 



The Osage Orange (J/, aurantiaca Nutt.) is also occasionally 

 cultivated for its large ornamental, but inedible, fruit. It was intro- 

 duced from the southern United States in 1851, by Capt. Rollo, and 

 has become naturalized in some places. 



It would make excellent windbreaks if planted and pruned so as 

 to form high hedges. It can easily be trained into thick hedges, 20 

 to 25 feet high, and would thus be very useful in exposed situations. 



Date Palm. [Phoenix dactylifera L.) 



The Date can hardly be classed among the fruits of Bermuda, for 

 the trees seldom ripen their fruit. Some of those at St. George's 

 have, however, produced ripe fruits. 



The Cocoa-nut Palm seldom matures fruit in Bermuda. (See 

 under Shade and Ornamental Trees.) 



