Talking Flowers and Flowering People: Narrative, Plant Genetics, and Caribbean Identity

the inhabitants of the country were in fact divided into three categories: Blacks, Mulattoes, Whites (not to mention the subdivisions); that the first—by far the most numerous—were the cheap, common lot, like wild fruits, tasty, but too willingly doing without care; the second set could be considered as a grafted species; and the others, although ignorant, or uncouth for the most part, constituted the rare, precious species.