The owner will roast and eat their oily seeds.

There is also a tall bunch of Ochro {314b}--a purple-stemmed mallow-flowered plant--whose mucilaginous seeds will thicken his soup.

Up a tree, and round the house-eaves, scramble a large coarse Pumpkin, and a more delicate Granadilla, {314c} whose large yellow fruits hang ready to be plucked, and eaten principally for a few seeds of the shape and colour of young cockroaches.

If he be a prudent man (especially if he lives in Jamaica), he will have a plant of the pretty Overlook pea, {314d} trailing aloft somewhere, to prevent his garden being 'overlooked,' i.e.bewitched by an evil eye, in case the Obeah- bottle which hangs from the Mango-tree, charged with toad and spider, dirty water, and so forth, has no terrors for his secret enemy.

He will have a Libidibi {314e} tree, too, for astringent medicine; and his hedge will be composed, if he be a man of taste-- as he often seems to be--of Hibiscus bushes, whose magnificent crimson flowers contrast with the bright yellow bunches of the common Cassia, and the scarlet flowers of the Jumby-bead bush, {314f} and blue and white and pink Convolvuluses.