139 
as peu Coffee was introduced by Governor Sir Nicholas Lawes 
ae 171 The mango, brought by Captain Marshall of Lord 
R z s squadron in 1782, was pioi planted in Mr. East's 
Botanic Garden (Liguanea), and is now one of the commonest 
trees in the island. The plentiful and idah logwood was 
introduced from Honduras by Dr. Barham, a Botanist, the author 
of “ Hortus Americanus,” in 1715. The b autiful akee was 
obtained by Dr. Thomas Clarke, first Island Botanist, from a West 
African slave ship in 1778. The cinnamon came with the mango 
in Captain ee s ship in 1782, and was distributed from the 
Bath Garden by Dr. Dancer. The ubiquitous but graceful bamboo 
is also an canta and owes its introduction to Mr. M. Wallen, who 
brought it from Hispaniola and first planted it in the Parish of 
St. Thomas-in-the-East.* For the Cherimoyer we are indebted to 
Mr. Hinton East, who introduced it from South America in 1786 ; 
to ah East and his magnificent garden we also owe the jasmines 
and many species of lilies; ei SUVON; the oleander ; the 
horse-radish tree; numerous r ; the trumpet flower ; monkey 
bread ; the camellia ; Calla wane. the weeping willow ; the 
mulberry tree; the arbor vitæ, and the sweet scented mimosa. 
came the now common “almon ree; the tea tide, and the 
“sunn ” hemp plant The wa nee or zezegar nt by 
Sir Simon Haughton Clarke in 1801. The Haun tree, first 
in 1788, together with Bes tp ‘and TAE pepper, fon which he 
received the thanks of the House of Assembly and an honorarium 
of j The seeds of the valuable and now indispensable 
Guinea-grass were oma introduced from the West Coast 
of Africa as bird food in 1745. Scotch grass received its name 
from having been a ecu to the island from the district of 
Scotland in Barbados 
Pindars were cle to Mr. East from South America ; the 
afou, the acom and Guinea ap and indeed all but one of the 
cultivated snares are from the Coast of Africa or East Indies. 
The seeds of the guango (C saltiandra Saman) were brought ove 
from the mainland by Spanish cattle. Cacao is indigenous i 
Central America. The shaddock was brought to the West Indies 
from China by Captain Shaddock, hence its name. The genip 
was brought to Jamaica from Surinam by one Guaf, a Jew. The 
ginger r a native of the East Indies, introduced to Jamaica by a 
Spaniard, Francisco de Mendiza. The locust tree and blimbin ng 
were brought to Jamaica from the South seas in His Majesty’s 
rly owner of Cold Spring and Wallenford, the friend 
of E a ies ear A nist, we are to doubt indebted for the firs se a 
of erries, water-cress, chick-w i nsy, gro A 
dead eiei aeter au n honey-suckle, black-berried elder, evening 
primrose urti —— myrtle, the Englis white clover and 
sweet violet, now common on the Port Royal and Blue Mountains, —_ 
possibly, escapes from his Gerde at Cold Spring, ale even in 1793 was = 
stocked with choice selections of aah flowers and European trees an 
shrubs.—Bryan Edwards, 5th Ed., vol. 1, p. 243 
