443 



P. 



Pauli} rliizus tuberosum, 109. 

 Pahang, exports and iiiiports, 2S4. 

 Paint, a cheap, 74. 

 Palm nut cracking machine, 362. 

 Panama hats, manufacture of, 310. 

 Pandanus, support for vanilla, 410. 

 Papain industry in Montserrat, 252. 

 Papaw, change of sex, 1 24. 

 Para, rubber cultivation in, 42.5. 

 • — rubber, 235, 371. 



— — seeds, utilization of, 73. 

 Paraguay, cotton cultivation in, 309. 

 Paris green and London purple, 170. 

 - — — , application of, 168, 281. 



■ — — for Leeward Islands, 197. 



— - — , supply of, 120. 



Passiflora edulis, flowering and fruiting of. 



146, 190, 342. 

 Paterno.ster peas, 183. 

 Patterson, W. H., curator at Antigua, 



123. 

 Pear, Avocado, 187, 212, 236. 

 Pearl fishery, 109. 



Peasant proprietors in Demerara, 84. 

 Pemba, mangrove bark industry of, 362. 

 Peppers, bird, demand for, 428. 

 — , cultivation in French Lido-China, 332. 

 Perfumes, manufacture of, 43. 

 Perkinsiella saccharicida, 154. 

 Persoa gratissima, 187, 311. 

 Peru, agriculture in, 3. 

 — , cocaine manufacture in, 236. 

 -^, exports of cotton, 364. 

 Petroleum from Trinidad, 89. 



— resources of West Indies, 409. 

 Philippine Islands, cocoa-nut cultivation 



in, 132. 

 ■ — • — , insects of the cacao tree, 346. 

 • — — , iiianihx hemp cultivation, 327. 



— — , Panama hats from, 60. 



— — ,■ pine-api)le filire industry, 166. 



— — , ylang-ylang oil from, 364. 

 Phoenix dactylifera for arbor day planting, 



347. 

 Physic-nut oil, 376. 

 Phytelephas macrocarpa, 108. 

 Pigs, Tamworth, in Trinidad, 19. 

 Pilocarpus microphyllus, 94. 

 Pimcnta oil, 7. 

 Pimento sticks, export.s from St. Lucia, 



316. 

 - — , West Indian in London market, 30, 



94, 190, 238, 269, 302, 334, 365, 414. 

 Pineapples, composition of, 4. 

 — , cultivation in Fiji, 292. 

 — , — — Hawaii, 340. 

 - — , — — Jamaica, 164. 

 ■ — — — Malay States, 116. 



— , — — Porto Rico, 359. 

 — , — — Queensland, 372. 

 • — , — — St. Lucia, 300. 

 — , _ -_ West Indies, 242. 

 — , Dominica, 248, 280. 

 • — , fibre from, 166. 

 — , gathering for market, 212, 244. 



Pineapples, hybridization, 420. 

 , imports into U.S.A., .340. 



--, packing and shipiiing, 280. 



- , liipley variety, 204. 



—, slices in .syrups from Jamaica sugars, 

 307. • 



— , tinning, 164. 



— , Tobago, 156, 356. 



— , West Indian in Canada, 125. 



Pithecolobium tilicifolium, 374. 



— Saman in Trinidad, 151. 



— Unguis-cati, 395. 

 Plantain fibre, 201. 



Plant diseases, degenerescence graisseuse 

 332. 



— — , in Hawaii, 154. 



— — , marasmius, 23. 

 Plant study, 375. 



Plants and fungus parasites, 56. 



— — nitrogen, 151. 



— as analytical agents, 425. 

 — , diseased, 92. 



— , essential oils in, 326. 



— , fumigation of imported, 74, 138. 



— , liquid food for house, 75. 



— , number to the acre, 68. 



— , propagation by leaves, 123. 



— , protection of native, 121. 



Poix doux, as a wind-break, 274. 



Pollination, 51. 



Polybia occidentalis, \~Q. 



Pomegranate, 167. 



Pondicherry, exports of, 204. 



— , vanilla in, 169. 



Porto Rico, bananas in, 356. 



— — , brown ant in, 282. 



— — , cotton cultivation in, 37, 252, 

 261, 389. 



— — , fruit growing in, 264. 



— — , molasse.s, 17, 18, 243. 



— — , orange industry, 372, 394, 

 404. 



Poultry, eggs in Bermuda, 266. 



— , Job's tears as fi5od for, 342. 



— , notes on, 214, 331, 3:13. 



— , pens for exhibiting at shows, 395. 



— , turkeys, breeding, 343. 



— , water sui)ply, 217. 



Powell, H., in Britisli Kast Africa, 131. 

 , notes on llritish I'^ast Africa, 342. 



Products, careful jjieparation of, 235. 



Prosopis pallida, Algarrobilla, 195. 



Pteris aipiilina, leaf structure and envir- 

 onment, 215. 



Puuica granatum, the pomegranate, 167. 



Q. 



Queensland, agriculture in, 301. 



— , bananas in, 372. 



— , coffee in, 9. 



— , pine-apple in, 372. 



— , sisal hemp in, 166. 



, West Indian seedling canes in, 180, 



259. 

 Quinine and rinderpest, 76. 



R. 



— , pines in, 356. 

 — , report on agricultural experi- 

 ment station, 349. 



— , scale insects on cocoa-nuts, 

 346. 



— , sugar and molasses industries, 

 243. 



— , tobacco experiments in, 268, 

 345. 



Potato starch, demand in Vienna, 396. 

 Potatos, Engli.sli, disease of 199. 



, — , experiments in West Indies, 



115, 242. 



, — , returns in Great Britain, 124. 



, — , seed from, 1 20. 

 , — , selection for planting, 44. 



, Sweet, analysis of, 330. 

 , — , as stock food, 330. 

 , — , experiments in Dominica, 247. 

 , — , — — Montserrat, 172. 

 , — , from Barbado.s, 316. 

 , — , meal from, 263. 

 , — , thrips in Barbados, 284. 

 Poultry, 6, 428. 



diseases, 28, 30, 122, 214, 342. 



Rabbit keeping in the West Indies, 230, 



246, 262, 278, 294. 

 Rabbits, breeding, 118, 392. 

 — , breeds for West Indies, 230. 

 — , diseases of, 203, 294. 

 — , feeding, 278. 

 — , housing, 246. 

 — , water for, 278. 

 Raffia fibre, 92. 



— — , exports from ^Madagascar, 348. 

 Rainfall and exports, 361. 

 Kamie, mantles for incandescent lamps, 12. 

 Rats, cleared fnini a garden by lizards, 



371. 

 destruction of, 299. 

 Ravenala madagascarieiisis, fruiting of, 



12, 40, 60, 342. 

 Ked sorrel, 167. 



Redding, R. J., Cotton Culture, 141. 

 Reports : — 



Antigua Botanic Station, etc., 333. 



Barbados and Porto Rico molasses, 29. 



British (4uiana Board of Agriculture, 

 29. 



— — , Botanic Gardens, 285. 



— — , Pomeron and Moruca 

 districts, 189. 



British Honduras, Botanic Station, 253. 



Dominica Botanic Station, etc., 267. 



Grenada Botanic Station, etc., 333, 



Hawaii, 349. 



Jamaica, Public Gardens and Planta- 

 tions, 107, 411. 



Leeward Islands sugar-cane experi- 

 ments, 138. 



Montserrat Botanic Station, etc., 267. 



