The axe was, therefore, freely used, and, one after another, nearly all the trees which produced this excellent fruit were cut down.

Other fruit trees, as the orange, the guava, pomegranate, avocado pear, golden apple, water lemon, soursop, etc.

grow spontaneously on almost every plantation, and furnish an abundance and a variety of refreshing, nutritious food, at different seasons.

Plantains, peas, cassava, kalliloo, yams, and several other kinds of esculent vegetables, some of which bear a close resemblance to the potato in every thing excepting the form, are raised in abundance with very little labor.

The calabash tree is also found growing wild on every estate.