nutmeg-tree

The light volcanic soil, the shade, and the excessive moisture of these islands, where it rains more or less every month in the year, seem exactly to suit the nutmeg-tree, which requires no manure and scarcely any attention.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Among the productions of the island, there is reason to believe that the nutmeg-tree might be mentioned.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Among the productions of the island, there is reason to believe that the nutmeg-tree might be mentioned.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Thus this elegant little creature becomes the useful means of disseminating the remarkable nutmeg-tree, and it is found that some chemical treatment corresponding to that which it undergoes during sojourn within the body of the bird, is actually necessary before the nut can be fertilised and induced to take root.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The clove-tree is smaller, and less copiously provided with foliage, than the nutmeg-tree.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

The nutmeg-tree is about the size of a good apricot-bush, and from top to bottom is a mass of foliage; the branches grow very low down the stem, and the leaves glitter as if they were varnished.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

The presence of the steamer awakens a faint simulacrum of life and interest in sleepy Boeroe, and a native woman, in the rusty black calico wherewith Dutch Calvinism counteracts the Eastern love of glowing colours, brings a rickety chair from her dingy hut, and sets the precious possession under a shadowy nutmeg-tree in the village street.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

Heine, in his _Lieder_, chants of the mystic nutmeg-tree as the ideal growth of the tropical forest, for every stage of life and growth reveals some fresh beauty in delicate bloom, glistening foliage, and fruit of roseate gold.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

There are deer, hogs, and pigeons on Sumpudin Island; but what was more interesting to me was, the discovery of the wild nutmeg-tree in full flower, and growing to the height of twenty or thirty feet.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

The produce of the nutmeg-tree forms as cleanly an article of cargo as could be wished.

Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887