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The Bread Fruit-A friend recently from the
Society Islands, has presented to us a specimen


OF the celebrated bread fruit of that climate:
"That tree, which, in unfailing stores,
The staff of life spontaneously pours,
And to those southern islands yields
The produce of our labored fields"
The bread tree is one of thesmost valuable


productions of the fertile islandSin the Pacific.


There are about fifty varieties of it. 1t pro-
duces three or four crops annually, and is seldom


without ripe fruit on its branches. 1t grows
spontaneously and furnishes principal food 10 the
natives. The fruit is eaten cooked or green, and
is sometimes fermented and beaten into kind
Of paste. The tree furnishes valuable timber
for the canoes, houses, and furniture of the inha-


bilants; its bark is wrought into clothing, and it
affords resinous substance which is used for
making tight the seams Of the canoes.--Prou.
Jour-