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Norway [Schuebeler]. Many other species of this genus deserve 

 attention of the culturist. 



Artocarpus eommunis, R. and G. Forster.* (A. incisa, Linne fil.) 

 South- Sea-Islands, Moluccas and Suiida-Tslands. 

 The Tahiti "Breadfruit-tree." It stretches in the Sandwich- 

 Islands through cultivation almost beyond the tropics, ripening 

 fruit also in Florida, and ascending to 3,000 feet in Jamaica. Dies 

 still down in unusually cool seasons at the tropic of Capricorn in 

 East Australia, when in a young state, unless protected during the 

 coldest weather. According to Dr. Seemanii's excellent account 

 seedless varieties exist, and others with entire leaves and with 

 smooth and variously shaped and sized fruits ; others again ripen- 

 ing earlier, others later, so that ripe bread-fruit is obtainable 

 more or less abundantly throughout the year. The fruit is simply 

 boiled or baked or converted into more complicated kinds of food. 

 Starch is obtainable from the bread-fruit very copiously. The very 

 fibrous bark can be beaten into a sort of rough cloth. The light 

 wood serves for canoes. The exudation, issuing from cuts, made 

 into the stem, is in use for closing the seams of canoes, and could 

 be turned to technic account. 



Artocarpus integrifolia, Linne fil.* 



India. The famous " Jack-Tree," ascending like the allied A. 

 Lakoocha (Roxburgh) to 4,000 feet ; only fit for places free of frost. 

 A large tree in full bearing is one of the grandest of objects in the 

 whole vegetation of the world. The fruit attains exceptionally a 

 weight of 80 Ibs. ; it is eaten raw or variously prepared ; the seeds, 

 when roasted, are not inferior to chestnuts [Dr. Roxburgh]. In 

 East-Australia just outside the tropics this tree still produces fruits 

 in enormous quantity, up to a weight of 23 Ibs. [Edgar] ; to a lesser 

 extent at Moreton-Bay [Fr. Turner]. Bears fruit as far south as 

 Durban in Natal [J. M. Wood]. In Jamaica it is cultivated up to 

 3,000 feet [W. Fawcett]. The allied A. polyphema (Persoon) has 

 smaller fruits, very odorous and with sweet pulp. It is a native of 

 Cochinchina ; its degree of hardiness is not well ascertained yet. 

 An illustration of it occurs in Madame van Nooten's beautiful work 

 on Javanese culture-plants. 



Arundinaria elegrans, Km-/. 



Burma, ascending to 7,000 feet elevation. Height of stems to 

 20 feet. 



.Arundinaria falcata, Nees. 



Middle Himalayan zone, ceasing at elevations over 7,000 feet. 

 The canes are thin and weak, seldom over six feet high. This 

 bamboo does not necessarily require moisture. In reference to 

 various bamboos see the Gardeners' Chronicle of December, 1876, 



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