58 THE BOOK OF USEFUL PLANTS 



Islands, in hopes that this valuable species could 

 become established. 



The good ship Bounty got the cargo of plants 

 loaded, and sailed away, but the lieutenant was 

 seized in mid-ocean by his mutinous crew, who 

 put him into a small boat and set him adrift, with 

 a sailor or two, who remained faithful, for 

 his company. Back the Bounty sailed and reached 

 the port from which it put to sea, and the crew 

 made a settlement on Pitcairn's Island. But 

 the plucky Lieutenant Bligh lived to reach Eng- 

 land, and to head another expedition, which 

 succeeded in carrying the breadfruit tree into the 

 British West Indies, where it succeeded, and 

 to-day is one of the most valuable of tropical 

 fruits grown there. 



It is one of the trees that grow best from cut- 

 tings made from new shoots. Unfortunately the 

 fruit does not stand shipping as well as the cuttings 

 and young trees, by which the species has been 

 distributed very generally in the tropics of all 

 countries. 



Some trees feed and house and clothe people. 

 Certain palm trees have this threefold value to 

 the human race. The breadfruit tree is another. 

 The inner fibre of the bark of young trees is made 

 into cloth used for garments. The wood of the 



