108 ISLES OF SUMMER. 
of the Bahamas are admirably adapted for all tropical and semi- 
tropical fruits.” His table of those which are indigenous em- 
braces the following: the sapodilla, cashew, pine apple, sweet- 
sap, sour-sap, papaw, sour orange, lemon, star-apple, cocoa plum, 
cocoa nut, seaside grape, water melon, mamee, plantain, banana, 
love-in-a-mist, guava, spanish hog plum, hog plum, scarlet hog 
plum, tamarind, and wild grape. 
‘“‘The luscious fruits, which of their own accord 
The willing ground, and laden trees afford.” 
The following, he states, have been introduced at different 
times: the Jamaica (custard) apple, ground nut, bread fruit, 
ackee, citron, orange (citrus aurautiwm), mandarin orange (cit- 
rus decumana), two species of shaddock, lime, rose apple, fig, 
mangoe, avocado pear, pomegranate, date, balsam apple, mul- 
berry, broad-leafed almond, grape and jujube. 
In Nassau, as elsewhere, every month has its own special and 
peculiar floral display, although many flowers continue from 
month to month to unfold their blossoms. Some varieties of 
indigenous flowers are always to be found in the wild and tangled 
woods. The ladies, returning from their rides near the close of 
day, generally bring with them the curious growths of tree, and 
shrub, and vine, which nature has spontaneously produced and 
scattered with lavish profusion on every hand. The flowers are 
massed in trees and ambushed in thickets. Here a flowering 
vine festoons a wayside tree with garlandsof beauty, and reaches 
out for a caress as the stranger rides by; while there, from their 
little many-hued censers, flowers of more rank and stately growth 
shed upon him their sweet tributary incense. One soon is com- 
pelled to adopt as his own, the enthusiastic sentiment of the 
charmed poet who sings: 
