quantity and delicious fruits in abundance. Should 

 some enterprising men take up and work the idea^ a 

 trade might arise, which will be found profitable as well 

 to proprietors of orchards. 



A very competent authority, Dr A. Hill Hassell, 

 treating of the adulterations of Food and the methods 



for their detection, speaks of marmelade, jams and jellies 

 which are often here found to contain the pulp of either 

 apple or turnip and he adds that : 



" Indeed at one time, there was scarcely marmelade 

 to be obtained from the shops free from the admixture 

 of apples jelly, figs which were rotten and maggotty, 

 and quite unsaleable, were use in the manufacture of 

 jams, together with bad plums, the sweepings of fruit 

 warehouses." 



Ornamental seeds such as Jo Vs tears {Coix eacrymd) 

 Jequirity or reglise sauvage, also known as erab's-eyes, 

 {Abrii,s precatorius) , bois noir rouge [Adenantliera pavo- 

 nina) were also shown and many of these are capable of 

 being cleverly worked up into nice objects of great 

 delieateness which would be eagerly sought for by 

 people spending a few hours in the Island and in search 

 of natural curiosities. 



The handsome seed of] the Raphia tree {Raficv 

 Riifia) and the circular flat seeds of the liaae Mme 

 Bertrand [Entada Scandens) of which one single plant 

 covers an area of one acre at the Baie du Cap might 

 be used by invalids and other persons in making curious 

 objects. 



