Identifier: naturalhistoryof00hugh (find matches)
Title: The natural history of Barbados : in ten books
Year: 1750 (1750s)
Authors: Hughes, Griffith, b. 1706 or 7 Mynda, engraver Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770, engraver Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, engraver Austen, engraver Erbets, engraver Larkin, Edmund, former owner
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Flowers : Thefe Filaments, being cleared of this Duft,are pickled, and efteemed among the beft Pickles, either here or inEi^rope. But if this Spatha is not cut down and opened, whilft thus young; ifit be fuffered to continue on the Tree till it grows ripe and burfts; thenthe inclofed Part, which, whilft young and tender, is fit for pickling,will, by that time, have acquired an additional Hardnefs, become foonafter hgneous, grow bufhy, confifting of very many fmall Leaves, and intime produce a great Number of fmall oval thin-fhelled Nuts, about theBignefs of unhusked Coffee-berries: Thefe, being planted, produceyoung Cabbage-trees. The greateft Number of thefe Trees uncultivated, are in Mrs. Alleyne\Wood, in that Part of the Ifland called Scotland; at Mr. Holder ^ andat Codrlngton s-College ; and by far the longeft planted Walk is at Mr.BaU\ Eftate, commonly called Farjner s Plantation in St. Thomas\ Parifti:But the moft regular in Growth, Proportion, and Beauty, either in this Ifland,
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Book IV. IJland of BARBADOS. Ifland, or perhaps in the World, is a fmall Walk at the Eftate of Mis»JVarreJt^ at the Black-Rock \ and another, tho much inferior to it, at theEftate of Jofeph Terril^ Efq; in St. Lucy s Parifh. It is obferved, that when thefe (lately Trees are felled, either inten-»tionally, or by the Violence of the Wind, there breeds in the Pith of theTrunk a kind of Worms, or Grubs, about the Size and Length of thefirft Joints of the Thumbs; Thefe are eaten, and eflecmed great Delica-cies, by the French of the neighbouring Iflands. Thefe Trees grow on the Tops of Hills, as well as in Valleys. Thehard outlide Part makes very durable Laths for Houfes. This beautiful Tree is delineated in Plate IV. Ihe fmall Cabbage-tree. TPH IS, even at its greateft Growth, is far lefs than the Cabbage-treealready defcribed, having likewife the green Part, near the Top, muchlefs in proportion to its Bulk, than the former; and the Spatha likewifeis fomewhat redder. As the Trunks of the

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