" The negroes of the West Indies say that, "a branch of the cashew tree was used, and that in consequence one of the bright golden petals of the flower became black and blood-stained.

In one corridor the government nursery was stationed, where neem, mango, coconut, chickoo, tamarind, cashew and some other kinds of trees were being sold.

This is one of the American fruits, which are annually thrown on the coasts of Norway; and are frequently in so recent a state as to vegetate, when properly taken care of, the fruit of the anacardium, cashew-nut; of cucurbita lagenaria, bottlegourd; of the mimosa scandens, cocoons; of the piscidia erythrina, logwood-tree; and cocoa-nuts are enumerated by Dr. Tonning.

One pint milk, 1 dessertspoonful lemon juice, 1 tablespoonful Almond cream or Cashew nut cream.

PER LB. S. D. Walnut Butter 1 0 Cocoa Nut Butter 1 0 Cashew Butter 1 0

4 Roasted Pea Nuts 0 5 Blanched Pea Nuts 0 6 Cashew Nuts 0 9 Hazel Nuts 0 10 Monkey Nuts 0 4 Almond Meal 1 6 " (Unblanched) 1 3 Hazel Meal 1 0

This firm also produces Cashew, Walnut, Almond, and Nut Table Butter of great delicacy and fine flavour. Especially worthy of mention are the various Nut Butters manufactured by R. Winter, Birmingham.

They are put up in several varietiesNutarian Almond Margarine, Nutarian Walnut Margarine, Nutarian Cashew Margarine, Nutarian Table Margarine, Nutarian Cocoanut Margarine, and Nutarian Lard for cooking.

Cashew Nut Butter, 6-1/2d.

They comprise Blended Nuts, Almond, Cashew, Pine Kernel, and Walnut.

Why are the varieties of the cashew tribe, called varnish-trees? Because their large flowers abound in a resinous, sometimes acrid, and highly poisonous juice, which afterwards turns black, and is used for varnishing in India.

One kind is the common cashew nut.

Several roots (one of which is a true yam) together with various fruits in their seasonsespecially a cashew-nut or Anacardium, also the base of the undeveloped central leaves of the cabbage-palm, are much prized.

The chief complaint to which they are subject is a mild form of ophthalmia, with which I once saw three-fourths of the natives about the settlement affected in one or both eyes; they themselves attributed this affection to the lurgala, or cashew-nut, then in season, the acrid oil in the husk of which had reached their eyes. BURIAL CEREMONIES.