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THE TROPICAL FRUIT STOVE. 



MOXKEY BREAD {Adatisonia digitata). 



This tree, of the enonnoas size of which such wonderful accounts have 

 been reported, was not found by ^Ix. Don, in his journey to Sierra Leone, 

 to exceed that of a large apple tree. In regard to its fruit we may 

 obseiTe. that it is of considerable size, containing a farinaceous pulp full 

 of seeds, tasting something like gingerbread, but with a pleasant acid 

 flavom', It is pretty common in the stoves in this country, and is found 

 to be so easily cultivated that any particular notice of it would be 

 superfluous. 



SWEET PiSHAMiy ( Carjjodinus dulcis). 



This new genus of plants was estabhshed by the learned and amiable 

 Robert Brown, Esq., in whose herbarium specimens of it exist : but we 

 beheve that, although obsei-ved by ^Ir. Don growing plentifully on the 

 Maitello-tower Hill, near Tree Town, Sierra Leone, and by other col- 

 lectors, it has not as yet reached us in a Uvrng state. Were its merits as 

 a fruit-bearing tree sufficiently known, we doubt not but that it would 

 soon find its way to this countiy. 



It is described by ]\Ir. Don as a climbing shrub, producing fruit re- 

 sembhng the lime, and growing pendulous either singly or in pairs. The 

 pidp is agreeable and svreet, and when broken yields a quantity of sweet 

 milky juice. There is another species, which produces fruit more abun- 

 dantly than this, but much less agi-eeable to the taste. 



THE MAXGO (Mangifero. indica.) 



This fruit is a native of the East In'dies. but has been long ago intro- 

 duced and successfully cuirivated in most of the West Indian islands, 

 particularly in Jamaica, where several varieties of gi'eater or less merit 

 are cultivated. The late Sh Stamford RaiSes assm'es us that there are 

 above forty varieties of mango known in Java aloue. 



The fruit is described as a kidney-shaped drupe, or berry, covered with 

 a smooth, resinous, pale yellovrish. or half-red skin, containing an oval, 

 compressed stone, witliin which is a soft and pmpy kernel. It is con- 

 sidered wholesome, and is exceeded in point of f avo'ur by no other Tropical 

 fruit, the pine-apple only excepted. Two varieries of the mango have 

 been fi'uited in this country bv the Earl of Powis. which, in honour of his 



