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APPENDIX TO BOOK V. 
CONTAINING 
Some Account of the Cultivation of the Clove Tree, in 
the Island of Dominica, by William Urban Buee, Esq. 
of that Island; from a Memoir presented by him in 
1796, to the Lords of the Committee of Council for the 
Affairs of Trade and Plantation. 
BOUT the month of July 1789, a friend of mine in 
/~~\ Cayenne sent me, as a present, a clove tree about six 
inches high, having six or eight leaves, and accompanied 
with a printed paper respecting the cultivation of it. It 
was required by my friend’s paper, that the tree should be 
planted in a rich soil, and in a moist and cool situation, 
and in the shade of some trees round it. It was also obser¬ 
ved, by my friend, that the tree would thrive best, if it 
were planted between four plantain trees. The continent 
of Cayenne being free from hurricanes, and the island of 
Dominica being on the contrary, exposed to them, I 
thought that the plantain trees were of too tender a nature 
to afford a sufficient shade; because, with the least gust of 
wind thev might fall on the clove tree and destroy it: in 
consequence, I selected one of the richest spots on my estate, 
being a rich black soil, where I had sixteen thousand cof¬ 
fee trees growing most luxuriantly; between four of those 
coffee trees I planted my clove tree with great care ; 1 sur¬ 
rounded it with sticks to prevent it from being trod upon ; 
