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different situations and seasons | but although^ after 
the first growth^ they usually appear like young po- 
tatoes_,—if planted again^ they are invariably soft and 
sweety very small_, and by no means so palatable as 
the indigenous sweet potato. 
At Afareaitu^ I had sown a number of seeds from 
England^ Rio Janeiro^ and New South Wales. Coffee 
and cashew-nuts^ anacardium occidentahy I had before 
planted in boxes; they grew well^ but the coffee and the 
cashew-nuts were totally destroyed by the goats^ which, 
leaping the fence one day, in a few minutes ate up 
the plants, on which I had bestowed much care. I suc¬ 
ceeded, however, in preserving the custard-apple, 
anona triloba or squamosa, that I had brought from 
Rio, and plants from it are now bearing fruit in several 
of the islands. In addition to these, I was enabled to 
cultivate the papaw apple, carica 'papaya. French- 
beans, carrots, turnips, cabbages, and Indian corn ^ 
while our little flower-garden, in Huahine, was 
adorned with the convolvulus major and minor, cap¬ 
sicum, helianthus, and amaranthus, with several bril¬ 
liant native flowers, among which the gardenia and 
hibiscus rosea chinejisis were always conspicuous. The 
front of our house was shaded by orange trees, and 
our garden enclosed with a citron hedge. 
The comfort connected with a garden, and the 
means of support derived therefrom, were not our 
only inducements to its culture; we were desirous 
to increase the vegetable productions of the island, and 
anxious also that our establishments should become 
models for the natives in the formation of their own, 
and in this we were not disappointed. Before I left 
the islands, a neat little garden was considered by num- 
