'Fruits contained in the bottles sent per Capt Anderson'
Information
Title
'Fruits contained in the bottles sent per Capt Anderson'
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
RHS/Col/2/3/3
Date
19 Mar 1822
Scope & content
List of the contents of bottles of fruit sent by George Don from Sierra Leone on a ship sailing to England with Captain Anderson [?John Anderson, captain of the Lord Wellington]
Includes a species of Tonsella ('a most excellent wild fruit the flavour of which I can compare to nothing but the finest of sugar'), Anacardium occidentale or cashew apple [cashew], 'a cucurbitaceous scarlet fruit', mamee apple of Sierra Leone ('doubtful if it is not the same with the butter and tallow tree, although the tree appears a little different perhaps. The person that pointed out the two trees to me did not know them thoroughly, and perhaps has made a mistake. If so be the case, I have not seen the mamee apple of Sierra Leone yet') and 'cola you will find at the bottom of the bottle, Sterculia acuminata [Cola acuminata]' [here the list includes 15 more fruits]
For another version of the list in George Don's journal, 19 Mar 1822, see RHS/Col/2/1/5. List of the contents of bottles of fruit sent by George Don from Sierra Leone on a ship sailing to England with Captain Anderson [?John Anderson, captain of the Lord Wellington]
Includes a species of Tonsella ('a most excellent wild fruit the flavour of which I can compare to nothing but the finest of sugar'), Anacardium occidentale or cashew apple [cashew], 'a cucurbitaceous scarlet fruit', mamee apple of Sierra Leone ('doubtful if it is not the same with the butter and tallow tree, although the tree appears a little different perhaps. The person that pointed out the two trees to me did not know them thoroughly, and perhaps has made a mistake. If so be the case, I have not seen the mamee apple of Sierra Leone yet') and 'cola you will find at the bottom of the bottle, Sterculia acuminata [Cola acuminata]' [here the list includes 15 more fruits]
For another version of the list in George Don's journal, 19 Mar 1822, see RHS/Col/2/1/5