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 The blobms cloe during the night, but being touched with the hand, or receiving the heat of the un in the morning, they expand, diffuing the moft delightful, fragrant cent.

The ea-ide grapes are of the ize of other grapes, but are the produce of a large preading tree, which bears them in mall cluters. They have only one feed, which is nearly as large as the fruit, by which it is covered very thinly; have a very agreeable tate, but are of an atringent nature.

The cocoa nut is o well known, as to need no decription; but they are not in uch great plenty in Dominica, as in many other ilands, owing to the little pains taken to plant them.

The conk nut is rather larger than a walnut, but grows from a vine, the blooms of which are much like thoe of the water lemon. It has a thick, trong hell, full of feeds, like the