cultivating in England. By Mr. John Lindley. 105 



viz : Psidium phylliroides, the fruit of which is used for re- 

 freshing lemonades.* Achras Cainito and Achras Lucuma,\ 

 Aristotelia Macqui,\ PorceMa nitidifolia,\\ and Lardizabalia 

 biternata.% 



In describing such of the fruits of Asia as are included in my 

 plan, I shall separate them into those of the Indian Archi- 

 pelago, of the Continent of India, and of China, including 

 Japan. 



THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO 

 produces, as a modern writer has observed, " by far the most 

 curious, the richest, and the most extensive varieties of fruits, 

 of any portion of the globe. The nature of some of the finest 

 is so peculiar that all attempts to cultivate them even in 

 parallel climates, have proved unsuccessful."** The latter 

 part of this remark is, I apprehend, chiefly intended to apply 

 to the Durian and Mangustin. Without staying, however, 

 to consider the possibility or impossibility of cultivating those 

 fruits, which is a question that future experience alone will 

 decide, I shall proceed to offer such an account of them and 

 others of the same latitudes as the descriptions of travellers 

 have enabled me to collect. The greater number of the fruits 

 of the Indian islands grow wild ; and it is but a very careless 

 cultivation that is bestowed upon any. The trees of most of 

 them are planted in a straggling manner about villages. They 

 probably do not require the richest soils ; for fine fruit and 

 abundant crops are obtained from lands considered unfit for 

 raising grain, or even farinaceous roots.-H* 



• Humboldt's Personal Narrative, Vol. v. page 140. 



f Flora Peruviana, Vol. iii. plates 239 and 240. 



% Florae Peruvianae systema, page 126. || Ibid, page 144. 



§ Ibid, page 287. *» Crawfurd, Vol. i. page 415. ff Ibid. 



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