T1IK ILLrsTKATION HoiJT 



TROPICAL FRU1 



Gardens and herbariums generally ,1 >oth in the lar 

 lishments and private collections, are lamentably 

 in one important particular. We meet with a ver 

 number of tropical plants in cultivation, that arc in 

 from their uses as food or in the manufactures 

 Travellers in distant countries almost invariably 

 collect specimens, either living or dried, of tho< 

 cultivated for their produce. Their chief ol 

 plants possessing the merit of novelty. \Y 

 articles , of 

 whose origin 

 we are utterly 

 ignorant; and 

 yet would the- 



solid advanta- 

 ge in knowing 

 their source? 

 From an inst- 

 ructive point 



of 



might woi 

 lyoccupy 



for 



The Bread-fruit Tree, Artocarpu 



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The Bread-fruit tree, Artocarpus ina 

 type of a small natural order, termed the Artocarpeae ('). 

 The genus Artocarpus comprises about fifteen well-defined 

 species, and several still insufficiently known. But A. incisa 

 is the most important of all, and is of great interest on 

 account of its history as a useful plant. A. iaWgrifoiht, 

 the Jack-fruit, is another species possessing some valuable 



qualities, though 

 the former. 



The Bread-fruit tr. 





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