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Rev. Lewis Hughes in 1615 rather refers to them as plants which may 
be introduced than as if they existed; on the other hand he speaks of 
“fences of figge and pomegranite trees” in 1621, and they are mentioned 
in a proclamation of very early date, probably 1616. In 1623 they were 
abundant enough to be dried for food. This abundance continued down 
to the present century. It seems probable that they were among the 
fruit trees introduced by the first settlers in 1612 or 1616, but they may 
have found the tree already naturalized from seed left by earlier visit- 
ors. There are several varieties of fig cultivated at St. George’s, the only 
place wherethefruit istolerably abundant. It did notsucceed at Mount 
Langton, where many trees of different varieties from the United States 
were planted about 1872. 
F, elastica, Roxb. India-rubber tree. 
Tutroduced from South America by the lady of Sir Hildebrand Turner, 
about 1826; nowcommon. It grows to a very large size; a tree in Ham- 
ilton is 12 feet in girth. 
F. aurata, Miq. 
Introduced at Mount Langton 1875, and very healthy in 1877. 
Morus rubra, Linn. Red mulberry. 
There is a large tree, wild, among the rocks at Walsingham, and this is 
the species commonly found in gardens; whether MW. nigra, the common 
mulberry, is to be found, isuncertain. Theimulberry is mentioned in tie 
earliest narratives, but the writers gave this name to the fruit of Cono- 
carpus erectus. The Bermuda Company sent out mulberry seeds in 1616. 
M. multicaulis, Perrot. Silkworm mulberry. 
Introduced from America by Mr. Daniel Vaughan, about 1841, for 
feeding silkworms, and planted in many places. 
M. macrophylla, Hort. Paper mulberry. 
Artocarpus incisa, Linn. Bread fruit. 
Introduced at Mount Langton 1874. One or two young trees ap- 
peared likely to thrive. Name from artos, bread; karpos, fruit, Gr. 
A. integrifolia, Linn. Jack fruit. 
To be found in the garden at Par-la-ville. 
Maclura aurantiaca, Nutt. Osage orange. 
Introduced by Captain Rollo, Forty-second Regiment, about 1851, by 
seed from the Mississippi ; now naturalized, but uncommon. 
