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The Vegetable Kingdom. 
Manioc is exceeding. productive; and, rightly cultivated, 
would yield an immense revenue. It is easily raised, even on 
the mountains, but it flourishes best on the plains. Cassava 
bread is manufactured from its root; but a more lucrative use 
of it would be to make starch. 
The Palmi-Christi, (from the berries of which castor-oil is 
drawn,) pepper and pimentum, need rather more care to gather 
than to plant; for immense quantities are annually lost for the 
want of hands to collect their products. 
Oranges, citrons, mangoes, bananas, plantains, pineapples, 
and other fruits must suffer the same fate, until a line of steam¬ 
ships is started between the Republic and the United States,— 
a measure which is in contemplation by the Government of 
Ilayti. 
Arrowroot could be cultivated with great profit and success; 
but at present it is almost entirely neglected. 
VEGETABLES AND ERUITS EOR HOME CONSUMPTION. 
We have said that everything that grows in the States and 
the Canadas can be raised in Hayti; but not necessarily in 
every part of it. 
Clover, cabbages, and potatoes, for example, do not flourish 
in the plains, although they are abundantly productive in the 
highlands. The plains bear the fruits and trees of the tropics; 
while the mountains yield coffee and all the productions of the 
temperate zones. Among the vegetables and fruits that are 
used for home consumption only, are plantains, bananas, cocoa- 
nuts, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, yams, artichokes, egg-plants, 
mangoes, oranges, asparagus, bread-fruit, vegetable-butter, 
(laurus persea, in Creole, avocate,) vegetable-soap, (sapin- 
dus sapponaria,) apples, pineapples, strawberries, blackberries, 
mulberries, peaches, grapes, carrots, cabbages, radishes, pump¬ 
kins, beets, onions, celery, mint, parsley, and turnips. 
ERUITS EOR PRESERVES, AND FLOWERS FOR PERFUMES. 
Sugar refineries once more reestablished, a large trade would 
necessarily arise in preserved fruits for exportation. The high 
