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Friiits and Fruit- Trees. 



ously in the conveyance of the coco-nut to the islands of 

 the South Pacific. Others would be carried by man, in 

 the course of his wanderings and migrations. But who 

 shall write the minute history ? No problems are more 

 difficult ; few are more fascinating than are wrapped up 

 in the archaeology of the fruit-bearing plants. It is well 

 that we are thus beset, since half the enjoyment of life 

 consists in the sense of being embosomed in enigmas. 



