K>6 FRUIT St FOREST TREE*. 



weighing' from 3 to 5 lbs. may lie bought fin- from 

 1 to 2 cents of a dollar. Pulo Km, which is a small 

 rocky island in the harbour, produces The best flavored 

 pines, and some care is there taken in. raising* (Item. 



The variegated, or green anil white-striped leaved 

 pine, is highly oruamental to the table but not other- 

 wise approved of. Indeed, few settled European* in- 

 dulge in the pine, as it is justly deemed unwholesome, 

 perhaps from the glreal tendency its juice has to fer- 

 ment, and thr iudigi stibilily uf its fibre. 



In Manila a very exejuisite, lace-like fabric or scarf, 

 is manufactured from the fibre of the pine-apple leaf, 

 THE GRAPE. 



The climate is too moist for the grape ; yet a pale 

 sort has been, by great pains, brought to considerable 

 perfection by one of our oldest settlers on Penalty, 

 Mr. Rodyk, . 



ORANGES. 



Several varieties arc cultivated, but many of the 

 old gardens have died oft* and the profit does not 

 seem high enough to induce the Chinese, in whose 

 hands the cultivation has hitherto chiefly rested, to 

 keep it up. The descriptions .of this fruit now occa- 

 sionally procurable, are : 



The Chimhooh with a knob at one end, sweet ; — 

 the Litnan mattis, the sweet or China orange 

 Liman Japoon, the Japan orange;— JJmau harb&U, 

 the citron; — Limau gading, the ohaddock; — Lhnatt 

 Kdpas pctnjang. 



The Chinese seldom raise from the seed. A branch 

 )8 surrounded for about two inches in length with a 

 compost of earth and manure, and when roots appear, 

 it is cut off and planted. The Chinese affirm that the 

 new tree never survives the parent stock, provided the 

 latter dies through natural decay. 



An orange plantation requires incessant attention 



