Nutmegs

Kutmegifrow on Uttle treesrblch look like small pear tres, and not generallv over twenty feet higli. The flowars are very much (lke Jjily of the Valley. The nutinejr in the sced of the fruit, ind mfice is the tliin coverinj? over this leed. The tree grows on the islancls of Atl and tropical America. They bear fruit lor seveDty or eighty years, having ripe fruit upou them at all season. A line tree In Jamaica has over 4,000 nutmegs on it yearly. The Dutch used to have all this nutineg tnidc, as they owned the Banda Manda, and conquered all the other tiaders und destroyed tlie trees. To keep the price up they 'nce burned tinco piles of iiHtmcgi1, each of whioh was as larjre as a church. Nature did not sympnthize with llieir mcanness. The natmef piReon ciinii'd the nata, whlch are lhir teod, into all the surroundinjf countrte, and trees grew u agaiBt ano the world luid the benent.