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Coffee Tree. (Coffea Arabica Linné.) 
Wild or half-wild Coffee Trees occur in many places. This tree 
was early introduced into the islands for cultivation, but I find no 
evidence that it was ever cultivated to any great extent, even for 
local use, though it bears fruit. 
It is common on the Walsingham tract and at Paynter’s Vale. 
Sapodilla ; Naseberry. (Achras sapota L. or Sapota achras Mill.) 
This evergreen West Indian fruit tree is not yet very common. 
The russet-brown fruit, which is ripe in July and August, is about 
the size of a quince ; its soft pulp is very sweet. 
Persimmon. (Diospyros Virginiana 1.) 
Cultivated in a few gardens, but not thought of much value. It 
might be used for windbreaks near the shore, for it resists salt spray 
and spreads rapidly by root suckers. 
Perhaps the Japanese Persimmon might be of much greater value 
for fruit, but Iam not aware that it has been cultivated. Some of 
the varieties produce large and choice fruit in Florida. 
Ege Plant. (Solanum melongena L.=S. ovigerum Dun.) 
Cultivated for domestic use. 
The Tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.) has been discussed 
in a previous chapter (p. 530). Lefroy states that the amount of this 
fruit exported in 1871 was 672 tons. At present it is raised chiefly 
for local consumption. 
Cape Gooseberry. (Physalis Peruviana L.=edulis Sims.) 
Introduced from South Africa in 1874. It bears fruit abundantly, 
ripe in most months. 
American Red Mulberry. (Morus rubra L.) 
Cultivated frequently, but grows wild at Walsingham. Probably 
it is the native mulberry mentioned by the earliest settlers in 1612. 
The Bermuda Company sent out seeds of mulberry in 1616, to 
raise the trees for feeding silk-worms. It is probable that they were 
of the White Mulberry (JZ alba L.=multicaulis Per.), which still 
grows in Bermuda. But it has also been imported at other later 
periods; even as late as 1841, by Mr. Daniel Vaughan, according to 
Governor Lefroy, for feeding silk-worms. 
TRANS. Conn. AcApD., Vou. XI, 41 JUNE, 1902. 
