46 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



at fifteen, had embellifhed what the Negro Ùo-^ 

 mhigo only cultivated. He went with him to the 

 adjoining woods, to take up by the roots the young 

 plants of lemon and orange-trees, of the tamarinds, 

 whofe round head is of fuch a beautiful green, and 

 of the attier, whofe fruit is ftored with a fugary 

 cream, which emits the perfume of the orange- 

 flower. He planted thefe trees, after they had at- 

 tained a confiderable ftature, all around this enclo- 

 fure. He had there fown the grains of fuch trees 

 as, from the fécond year, and upward, bear flowers, 

 or fruits, as the agathis^ from which depend cir- 

 cularly, like the cryftal pendants of a luftre, long 

 clufters of white flowers ; the Perfian lilach, which 

 raifes ftraight into the air it's gray, flaxen giran- 

 doles ; the papayer, whofe branchlefs trunk, formed 

 like a column, bridled all over with green melons, 

 carries aloft a chapiter of broad leaves, refembling 

 thofe of the fig-tree. 



He had likewife planted in it the kernels and 

 the nuts of the badamier^ of the mango, of the avo- 

 catier, of the goyavier, of xkvz jacoj^ and of the jam- 

 rofe. Mod of thefe trees already yielded to their 

 young mafter, both fliade and fruit. His induf- 

 trious hand had diffufcd fecundity even over the 

 moft: fl:eril fpot of the enclofure. Aloes of various 

 kinds, the raquet, loaded with yellovv flowers fliriped 

 with red, the prickly tapers, arofe on the dufky 



fummits 



