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50. Gooseberry (Cicca disticha). — Habitat, East Indies. 
Season, August to November. Sa s tree, which, by the way, Grisebach 
wrongly described as a shrub, is common in the island, and its fruit, 
which is borne very utter is used principally for making j jams and 
other preserves. 
51. Candle na aes triloba). -—— Habitat, East Indies. 
Season, September to Decem This tree is rare in the island, but it 
dd well and beac abundantly. a is called “ Candle Nut,” because 
e s contain so much oi to burn brightly like wax candles. 
The fruit i is liked by many aiiora. 
UnTICACEX. 
52, Fig (Ficus Carica).—Habitat, South Europe, Asia, and North 
Africa. This delicious fruit is always in season, but les Bien ate: in 
the wage of Apri, May, and June. It grows well in Do and 
might of commercial value. The purple variety is "Uis ‘only 
one that i is ‘eiikiivated i in the gardens, but it is, I believe, the best of i 
ind. 
53. Bread Fruit (Artocarpus yea — Habitat, Pacific inant. 
Season, November to NUM ry. The fruit of this tree is really used as 
a vegetable in its ripe state, and as it is ae liked by the people it is 
cultivated E n might, therefore, be exported in considerable 
quantities. The spikes of the male flowers are sometimes candied like 
the Citron and Lemon-peel, and if introduced to the trade would no 
doubt meet with a ready sale. 
54. Bread Nut (4 ica eg € var. POS Pacific 
Pacific Islands. Season, November to February. The tree producing 
this Nut is a variety of the Bread I Fr uit. The so-called * Bread Nuts” 
are simply the seeds which are found in the interior of the large fruits 
that, in pe Fy Smad are indistinguishable from the ordinary 
Bread-fru seeds are somewhat like chestnuts in look and 
flavour. They bu boiled and eaten with salt, per are also used by 
cooks for stuffing poultry. 
55. Jack Fruit yi ues e "d .—Habitat, East Indies. 
Season, February to April. y a few trees growing in the 
island, and as the fruit is not ed for om by the people there are 
no signs of its propagation s are eaten like the Bread-nuts 
PALME. 
> POP UE CS Cocos mucifera).— Habitat, sere grape 
in seaso The Coco-nut, besides being export 
siderable quantities, ed largely into the food of tho peus of 
Dominica. The t very common, and there is scarcely a garden or 
yard in the island without one or more of these splendid palms growing 
therein. No particular use is made of the fibrous husk, so that this 
D uable article is really a waste product in Dominica, The « oil is made 
uantities, and all of it is consumed locally. A “Cocal” or 
Coco-nut L panon near to the sea-shore, with machinery for ae 
theo iE paring the fibre and bristles from the hus k, would n 
zem ubt Pes paying concern, and there is, therefore, room for ca pital 
and kii in this direction. If it pay to erect a factory in London 
to prepare the fibre and bristles, it ought to pay much the che in 
Domi inica, where labour and land are cheap, where water powe 
