642 A. E. Verrilli— The Bermuda Islands. 
The Bermuda Company also sent the seeds of the Black Mulberry 
in 1625. 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, 1627, 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 1616. Although some silk- 
worms were raised in that period, they were not of commercial 
importance. 
Bread Fruit. (Artocarpus incisa I..) 
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.= Maclura xanthoxy- 
lon Nutt.) 
Cultivated in a few gardens in Paget Parish. Introduced, about 
1865, from the West Indies. Fruit ripens in September. 
The Osage Orange (M. 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. (Phenix 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.) 
