The bloſſbms cloſe during the night, but being touched with the hand, or receiving the heat of the ſun in the morning, they expand, diffuſing the moft delightful, fragrant ſcent.
The ſea-ſide grapes are of the ſize of other grapes, but are the produce of a large ſpreading tree, which bears them in ſmall cluſters. They have only one feed, which is nearly as large as the fruit, by which it is covered very thinly; have a very agreeable taſte, but are of an aſtringent nature.
The cocoa nut is ſo well known, as to need no deſcription; but they are not in ſuch great plenty in Dominica, as in many other iſlands, owing to the little pains taken to plant them.
The conk nut is rather larger than a walnut, but grows from a vine, the bloſſoms of which are much like thoſe of the water lemon. It has a thick, ſtrong ſhell, full of feeds, like
