240 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



Spaniards, by Esquimel, a Spanish governor 

 under Diego Columbus ; and at the time 

 Elizabeth became mistress of Jamaica, there 

 were three small plantations on the Island, 

 the chief of which was at the Angels. 

 Sir Thomas Modyford was the first English- 

 man who planted this valuable cane in Ja- 

 maica, which he did in 1660. Since that 

 period, it has been the glory and pride of the 

 Island, amply rewarding the planter, greatly 

 enriching the British merchant, and giving 

 bread to thousands of manufacturers and 

 seamen ; and last, but not least, bringing an 

 immense revenue to the Crown. 



It is worthy of remark, that two vegeta- 

 bles of so much consequence in the com- 

 merce of Jamaica, as the coffee-tree, and the 

 sugar-cane, should have found their way to 

 that hot climate, through the temperate 

 zone of Europe, where they never could 

 have arrived at prefection. The coffee-tree 

 was planted at Fulham in Middlesex, fourteen 

 years before it was known in Jamaica ; and 

 the sugar-cane was also planted in this coun- 

 try, fifty years previously to its being culti- 

 vated in that Island; which may now be 

 justly styled the London Sugar and Coffee 

 garden. 



