Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . ver fish ;good mullet and some other kinds are readily procurable; of sharks,plenty. The taro root, the chief support of the inhabitants, grows abundantly,but requires attention to its culture, as it will not grow without plentyof water. We left a quantity of English vegetable seeds, and we hopethey will do well. Water melons are plentiful and cheap ; bananas growwell and are very good ; oranges are produced but of very poor quality;pine-apples also very inferior. The sugar cane likewise grows well, andthere were cocoa-nuts formerly on the Isl
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . ver fish ;good mullet and some other kinds are readily procurable; of sharks,plenty. The taro root, the chief support of the inhabitants, grows abundantly,but requires attention to its culture, as it will not grow without plentyof water. We left a quantity of English vegetable seeds, and we hopethey will do well. Water melons are plentiful and cheap ; bananas growwell and are very good ; oranges are produced but of very poor quality;pine-apples also very inferior. The sugar cane likewise grows well, andthere were cocoa-nuts formerly on the Island, but a blight destroyedthem all some years ago. I could not ascertain if they throve well; but,I believe the cocoa-nut tree is a great discerner of latitude, and will notflourish out of the tropics. Our representative told me he was verysuccessful with his cabbages; tolerably so with maize; less so with hispotatoes, doubtless owing, as he said, to his ignorance of , of a very inferior quality, has been found in the interior; the. GrovorLiL plcfyTv of JVcolive J^oi^ir
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