How Nutmegs Grow

grow on little trees, and are generally not over twenty feet high. The flowers are very much üke the lily of the v;tf ley. They are pale and vory fragrant. The nutmeg is the seed of the fruit and mace is the thin coveriug over the seed. The fruit is about as large aa a peach. When ripe, it breaks open and shows a little nut inside. The trees grow on the islanda of Asia, and tropical America. They bear fruit for seventy or eighty years, having ripe fruit upon theii at all seasons. A tino tree in Jamaica has over four thousand nutmegs on it e very year. The Dutch used to have all this nutmeg trad?, sa they owned the Banda lslands, and conquered all the other traders and desttoyed the trees. To keep the price up they once burned three piles of nutmegs, each of which piles was as big as a church. Nature did not synipa thise witb such meanness. The nutmeg pigeon, found in all the Indian Islands, did for the world what the Dutch had determined should not be done - earried those nuts, which are their food, iuto the surrounding countries, and trees grew again, and the world had the benefit.