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B us Platanide. “The flowers are moncecious ; ahe 
males disposed in. long club-shaped spikes, and the fe ; 
$ males i in round balls, which become the fruit. F | 
* ^» Beneath the rough rind of the fruit lie a large PM $ 
x | of nuts, in a bed of fleshy farinaceous | substance. The. 5 
E nuts, when roasted, are said to be very good ; and the © 
other part, baked or roasted, furnishes a v. bread, 
and gives its common name to the fruit. 
most cultivated for food is without nuts, 
come abortive, leaving the inside of the frui a th 
tire possession of the bread-like pulp. This variety is 
propagated by suckers. ty 4 
The introduction of the bread-fruits into the West 
Indies from the Islands of the Pacific, i is connected with 
the singular and romantic history of the Bounty and her 
mutineers, Christian and ane and her brav 
But notwithstanding the high expectans which were wa 
. formed of the effects of this transplantation, and the ^" 
pains, expense and danger incurred to realize them, the 
experiment seems to have failed, in an economical point 
of view. Owing to the climate or some other cause, 
the bread-fruit has not come at all into competition with 
those great staples of support, the banana and the yam, 
* and the planters appear to care little about it. It is to 
be hoped, however, that the tree will still be cultivated, 
if it is only for curiosity, variety, and ornament. "There 
