CHAPTER FOl'RTH. 

 BCATI B C A 1 1 AN — FRO IT AND FOREST TREES. 



THE MANCOSTEEN— HANGIS; 



The seductive apple of the east— the fruit of this tree 

 ai too well known already to require a lengthened 

 description. The tree is a low, dark, evergreen of a 

 graceful and rather tapering form. The plants are 

 raised from seed, and an orlong ought to contain sixty 

 trees. They bear about the 7th. year and one ortoitg'a 

 produce, at one dollar a rree, will he therefore 00 Sp. 

 dr?. But there are no plantations of thU extent, 

 nor is it likely that there will be, since any material 

 increase in the present supply of the fruit would ftp 

 reduce prices as to absorb profits. Some trees will 

 yield 1000 fruit. The wild mangosteen grows in the 

 woods and neighbouring islands. A mangosteen also 

 grows on the Malabar roast, the fruit of which is 

 very acid. But as the climate of that coast assimilate* 

 a good deal to ours, the cultivated sort might [>erhaps 

 be introduced there. From the kernel of this wild 

 jiinngosteeV the people on the Malabar coast make a 

 concrete oil, which is, it is said, used as a cosmetic. 

 The seeds of jacks, doriaus, and other fruits, would 

 yield oils likewise. 



THE DORIAN, MALAYAN DURIAN-DURIO ZIBETMNOS. 

 Curiosity, not taste, first prompts die new seliltr 

 to attempt this fruit. But although tasting it, Jas he 

 generally does, with a prejudice against it, he not 



