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the trunks, : dropping them at the roots of any tree in the woods. e 
istle of Goazacoalcos, or the brother of the pine apple, whose thin, narrow, 
long aves.’ yield the foliaceous fibres called pita, a superior substitute for 
flax, needs no other pr 2 pkg aa pt their self-propagation than clearing 
away the Ercan tice of the 
The celebrated gomutus vali whi ich grows wild in the swampy woods o 
Sumatra, fe yields 4 to 6 pounds annually of the black horsehair-like os 
called ejoo, besides sago, wine, sugar, thatch, &c., and was considered RY 
the British Government to be the most valuable substitute for hem mp, dise 
ered by the distinguished and favored Dr. Roxbu ae end was, eee 
propagated extensively in the dominions of the India Company. 
The Meuritia, flexuosa, or the miarriche palm, of the i alana of the delta of 
the Orinoco, which are overflowed by the inundations of the river half me 
vent, and by the tides of the sea twice a day during the remaining 
onths, nevertheless yields all the vegetable materials for building, tor 
fits for domestic iy for clothing, for food, ahd for drink, which 
are necessary for the comfortable existence of man. The t trees, which 
yield abundant snbeaitaue f os bread, for butter, and for ae will all propa- 
gate themselves in shady groups or on arid soils. Even the cultivated 
chocolate-tree wil] perish, rites protected by the shade of other trees, and 
can hence be propagated in the marshy woods of tropical Florida. The 
tien palm, growing wild in marshy neti furnishes te the indolent Brazil 
lans an equivalent to the grape in the pulp; anda miniature cocoanut in 
the stone and cenit of its clustering fruit and in its very fibrous leaves a 
wamps of southern Florida, may be profitably employed in the Propage: 
mG of tropical plants.) The vague fase or sago “is an inhab- 
itant of only low, marshy spots. A good sago plantation or forest, is a bog 
Knee deep.” Five or six hundred pounds is no unusual quantity of nutri. 
tive matter afforded by a single tree ; but taking the least average at 300 
lowing even as years. or complete maturity, a single crop — 
of 
pounds, and a 
will be’ Saaivulegit to 8 ,700 r acre of anal supply o farinaceous 
matter. the imento By 0 tropical A a, and the cinnamon tree 
of tropical Asia, are disseminated in the ros pide forests, and in the 
Most impassable jungles, by birds and beasts alone, it may be safely pre- 
dicted, that ifa single plant of each should come to maturity in tropical 
of the Hopea tinctoria.” Cloves grow luxuriantly in a sterile soil, co 
posed of yellowish or reddish clay ; and although, in the West Indies, the 
sun is admitted to them after the first year, yet it is probable that they 
would flourish still better in chain. analagous to those of their na 
paseo and as nutmegs are disseminated by 
seeds and fu are introduced by accident or design: The honest pha 
Diaz tells us, that while detached in G oazacoalcos. he found nine ora 
seeds in his trunk, which he planted by the side of the iat in which | 
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