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ISLES OF PinrMER. 



of the Bahamas are admirably adapted for all tropical and semi- 

 tropical fruits." His table of those which are indigenous em- 

 braces the following: the sapodilla, cashew, pine apple, sweet- 

 sap, sour-sap, papaw, sour orange, lemon, star-apple, cocoa plum, 

 cocoa nut, seaside grape, water melon, mamee, plantain, banana, 

 love-in-a-mist, guava, Spanish hog plum, hog plum, scarlet hog 

 plum, tamarind, and wild grape. 



"The luscious fruits, which of their own accord 

 The willing ground, and laden trees afford." 



The following, he states, luive been introdueod at different 

 times: the Jamaica (custard) ajiple, ground nut, bread fruit, 

 ackee, citron, orange [citrus aurautlum), mandarin orange {cit- 

 rus (lecumana), two species of shaddock, lime, rose apple, fig, 

 mangoe, avocado pear, pomegranate, date, balsam apple, mul- 

 ])erry, broad-leafed almond, grapo and jujube. 



In Nassau, as elsewhere, every month has its own special and 

 peculiar floral display, although many flowers continue from 

 month to month to unfold their blossoms. Some varieties of 

 indigenous flowers are always to be found in the wild and tangled 

 woods. The ladies, returning from their rides near the close of 

 day, generally bring with them the curious growths of tree, and 

 shrub, and vine, which nature has spontaneously produced and 

 scattered with lavish profusion on every hand. The flowers are 

 massed in trees and ambushed in thickets. Here a flowering 

 vine festoons a wayside tree Avith garlands of beauty, and reaches 

 out for a caress as the stranger rides by; Avhile there, from their 

 little many-hued censers, flowers of more rank and stately growth 

 shed upon him their sweet tributary incanse. One soon is com- 

 pelled to adopt as his own, the enthusiastic sentiment of the 

 charmed poet who sings: 



