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cutting off which the leaves, which mould 
form the buds for the enfuing year, are de- 
ftroyed, and with them the life of the plant* 
If the leaves from any common tree are 
ftripped off, fo as to prevent the formation of 
buds, the tree will be either killed, or it's vi- 
gour fo far deftroyed as to render it of no 
value 
Although the areca oleracea is the only 
palm which bears the cabbage part in great 
perfection, the cocoa-nut palm, and feveral 
other kinds of palm, are faid alfo to afford 
It ; but the accounts of this tribe of vegetables 
are often fo fhort, and given in a manner fo 
confufed, that there is hitherto little accurate 
knowledge obtained of their habits. The 
hiftory of the vegetation of the tropics, by a 
philofophical botanift, would be a work of 
the firfr value. There is another tree, which 
is known by the name of the Bread-fruit 
tree, which is an inhabitant of the iflands of 
the South-Sea, and alfo of afiatic growth ; of 
much more extenfive utility than the cabbage- 
palm. This is the artocarpus communis of 
Forfter, and belongs to the clafs Monoecia, 
one-houfe. The various attempts which have 
been made to introduce this valuable tree into 
the 
