Allspice
a kind of pepper, consisting of the dried berries of pimenta offifrom Jamaica, and is hence called Jamaica pepper. It is termed also pimento, from Spanish pimienta pepper; its berries in shape and flavor resembling peppercorns. The trees are cultivated in Jamaica in plantations called pimento walks. Their unripe fruits, and, to a lesser extent, all parts of them, abound in an essential oil, which has the same composition as oil of cloves; of this the berries yield from 3 to 5 per toothache. The allthe same composition as oil of cloves; of this the berries yield from 3 to 5 per cent. It is a powerful irritant, and is spice imported into this country is derived from pimenta officinalis, and not from often used to allay tooth pimenta acris.
The word is also the English name of the genus calycanthus, and especially the pimento tree, grows in Carolina, and of C. floridus, which has a scent like is often called the Carolina allspice.
Japan allspice is the English name of the genus chimonanthus, which belongs to the calycanthaceæ; wild allspice is laurel order. ALLSTON, WASHINGTON, an emilaurel order. nent American painter, poet, and ronent American painter, poet, and romancer, born at Waccamaw, S. C., Nov. 5, 1779; graduated at Harvard in 1800; studied at the Royal Academy, London, and in Rome, and returned to Boston in 1809. He is the author of "The Sylph of the Seasons, and Other Poems" (1813); "Monaldi," a romance (1841), Art and and "Lectures on (1850). He died in Cambridge, Mass., July 9, 1843.