The tamarind trees grow here in great perfection, and the fruit of them is excellent, being much uſed in medicine, for which purpoſe they are very valuable, and the timber of the trees is very ſerviceable.
Engliſh and American apple trees grow well in Dominica, and ſeveral of them are on different plantations in the iſland; particularly on thoſe of Alexander Stewart, Eſq. William Urban Bueé, merchant, and on ſome French eſtates, where the trees bear a juicy, well-flavoured apple.
Alſo ſtrawberries, raſberries, and ſeveral other European and American fruits grow here in great perfection; proving, beyond a doubt, that was a proper attention to be paid to the further ſettlement of this iſland, there is hardly any deſcription of foreign fruits but what would flouriſh in this country.
