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The Vegetable Kingdom. 
eat no fruits until they know what they are. In Hayti, there 
are three kinds of fruits, all poisonous, of the maneinella-tree, 
which somewhat resemble the citron, and thereby deceive chil¬ 
dren. But, as the tree is always destroyed as soon as it is dis¬ 
covered, it is extremely rare. The chief poisonous plant|gp£ 
Hayti are : — 
Poisoned hog-meat, (aristoloehia arboreseens,) snake-nut, 
gouare, cestrum nocturnum, tree arum, (three different kinds,) 
trefoil-leaved dragon, cissus caustica, dolichos obtusifolius, doli- 
chos minimus, thorn-apple, deadly nightshade, goats-rue, 
amaryllis punicea, black nightshade, milky dogsbane, and 
cissampelos. 
WOODS. 
Comparatively — considering its extent and fertility—un¬ 
peopled, Hayti has vast tracts of forest lands, many of which 
have never been exploited for sixty years, and abound there¬ 
fore in every variety of wood for building, cabinet-making, ship- 
architecture, dyeing, and tanning. The chief woods exploited 
are mahogany and logwood; and these, too, are taken from the 
most easily accessible places only, and without any aid from the 
appliances of modern art. The coasts, the banks of the Arti- 
bonite and other rivers furnish all the woods at present exported, 
but the exhaustless forests elsewhere, which it would not be 
difficult to work, remain still in their primitive condition. For 
house-building the Island furnishes magnificent pines, and a 
species of an oak (Bignonia guercus) as firm as that of Eu¬ 
rope, and impervious to worms. For frame and joint work, 
anacardium occidentale furnishes a good white wood ; and for 
pile-work, there is the acacia mimom. tenuifolia, which lasts for a 
century. For ship-building, the oak, iron-woods, auzuba fructu 
glutinosa and the acomas, (which furnish masts 60 feet long 
and 18 inches in diameter,) as well as the pines, already men¬ 
tioned, and other hard woods. For cabinet-making, mahogany 
of every variety, (the best in all the world,) ebony, lance wood, 
ferolia variegato, red and yellow satinwood, abound and are 
