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DEPARTMENT P UBLICA TIONS ON SALE. 



The ' WEST INDIAN BULLETIN.' A Quarterly Scientific Journal. 



Volume I. Reiiorts of tlie Agricultural Conference of 1899 and 19(X) and other iiaptrs ; complete, in the original paper 



covers as issued, post free, os. The parts can no longer be sold separately. 

 Volume II. Full rei)ort of the Conference of 1001, and other papers. Price, in original paper covers as issued, post 



free 2.s. 9(/. 

 Volume III. ' No. 1. Agricultural Conference of 1902 : President's .\ddress and Sugar Industry. No. 2. Conference 



of 1902 (continued). Educational and (leneral Pajiers. Price Oi/. Post free Sd each. No. 3. Sugar Industry, 



Scale Insects, School Gardens, Oliject Ljssons, Volcanic Phenomena, (irouml nuts etc., (in the press.) 



PAMPHLET SERIES. 



(3.) Seedling and other Canes at Barbados 1901). Price 2r^ Post free 2i(?. (5.) General Treatment of Insect Pests, 

 2nd Edition Revised. Price 4(/. Post free ihl. ((i.) Recipes for cooking Sweet Potatos. Price 2(!. Post free 2Ul. 

 (7.) Scale Insects of the Lesser Antilles. Price 4i?. Post free 0(/. (8.) Cultivation of Vegetables in Barbados. Price 2rf. 

 Post free 2i(/. (9.) Bee-keeping in the West Indies. Price 4(7. Post free 5('. ('10.) Manures and Leguminous Plants at 

 Barbados, 1898-1901. Price 4-/. Post free .W. (11.) Hints for School Gardens. Price 2(/. Post free 2^i/. (12.) Seedling 

 and other Canes in the Leeward Islands, 1900-1901. Price 2(/. Ptist free 2hil. (13.) Seedlings and other Canes at Barba- 

 dos, in 1901. Price 4(/. Post free 5(/. (14.) Screw Worm in Cattle at St. "Lucia. Price 2<l Post free 2hl. (15.) Plain 

 Talk to Small Owners. Price 2(1. Post free 2i.?. (Ki) Hints on (Jnion Cidtivation, Price 2(1. Post free 2p. (17) General 

 Treatment of Fungi lid Pests, Price 4i?. Post free, 5(/. (18) Recipes for Cooking West Indian Yams, Price 2(/. Post free, 2Arf. 



' NATURE TEACHING.' A text book based upon the general principles of Agriculture for the use of schools. 

 Prepared by the Honourable Francis Watts and others. (Pages 12 and 199). Price, limp cloth 2s., in superior binding 2s. Gd. 

 Postage, 3hl extra. 



The 'AGRICULTURAL NEWS ' A Fortnightly Review, Subscription 3s. 3-/. per annum, post free. 



Agents for tlie sale of tlie iiublications of the Department : — 

 LviKhm: Messrs. Dulau & Co., 37, Soho Scpuire, W. Barbados: Messrs. Bowex & Sons, Bridgetown. Jamaica: 

 The EnrcATioNAL Supply Company, 16, King St., Kingston. British Guiana : The ' Daily Chronicle Office, Georgetown. 

 Trinidad: Messrs. MuNRO, it Co., Frederick St, Port-of-S])ain. T()h(((j() : Mr. C. L. Plaoeimann, Scarborough. Grenada : Messrs. 

 Jf. Makrast & Co., ' The Stores,' St. George. .S7. ViiK.ujiif : Mr. W. C. D. Pboudfoot, Kingstown. Sf. Lucia: Mr. R. G. 

 MuHroH, Castries, DoiiiiinVrt .• Messrs. C. F. Duvernby & Co., Market St. Roseau. M(jntscrrat : Mr. W. Llewellyn Wall, 

 Plymouth; Aidi'iua: Mr. F. Forrest St. John's. .Sf. KUts : Messrs. S. L. Horsfokd & Co., Basseterre. 



plaJino'wori.d . Seeds & Plants of Commercial Products. 



HEVEA BRASILIENSIS. Coming crop of .seeds August-September .sliiiiment. As orders must reach us at 

 least at the end of July to avid disai>piiintment, ordering by wire necessary on the appearance of this advertisement. There is 

 only one crop in the year. A leading Sumatra ])lanter who jiurchased 150.000 seeds on two jireviijus occasions writes under date 

 IMay 10, 1902 : ' I shall like to have your lowest terms for delivery of 100,000 Hevea seeds in the same way as before from the 

 coming cro]).' 75' guaranteed to germinate. Shipments to West Indies can be made to London only : re-shipment must be 

 arrangetl by purchasers. 



For sjiecial offer of .seeds and jilants see the following descrijitive Price Lists, post free on application. 



1. Tropical Seeds and Plants of Conunercial Products, enlarged edition for 1902. 



2. Seeds and Plants of Shade, Timber, Wind-belts, Fuel, and Ornamental Trees, Trees for Road-sides, Parks, Open 

 Spaces, Pasture Lands, Avenues, Hedges, and for iilantiug among crops (Tea, Coffee, Cacao, Cardamons, etc.) 



3. Seeds and Plants of Tropical Fruit Trees including Mango grafts. 4. Bulbs, Tubers and Yams. 



5. Orchids — Ceyhai and Indian, (j. Seeds and Pl.uits (jf Palms, Calamus, Pandanus, Cycads, Tree and other Ferns, 

 'Crotons, Roses, Dracaenas, Shrulis and Creepers. 



SPECIAL ARHAXOEMEXTS made witli foreign Governments, Botanical and Agricultural Departments, 

 Planters, ami others fnr supplying seeds and plants of Commercial Products in large (juantities. 



AGAVE LURIDA. This highly recommended fibre yielding plant yields a fibre equal to that of Sisal in lustre 

 and tensile strength valued at from £28 to £3-1 per ton in London. Bulbils (seedlings) £1 per 100, £8 per 1,000 post free: 

 special quotations for large orders. 



COFFEE. Arabica-Liberian Hybrid and Maragogipe Hybrid — New crop ^March-April, 1903 : early booking 

 Tiecessary. 



A Foreign Agricultural Department writes dating 9th September, 1901: — "Please accept our order for 1751b. of Tea 

 :seed and for 2,0(XJ Coffee beans. In regard to Cuffee seed I would say that this will be the first inqiortation made by this 

 Department, and we will leave the selection of the varieties to be sent to your judgement." 



" S(_)rTH .\FRICA."— The great authority on South African affairs of 25th March, 1899, says :— .A.n interesting 

 ■Catalogue reaches us from the East. It is issued by William Brothers, Tropical Seed Merchants of Henaratgoda, Ceylon, 

 and schedules all the useful and beautiful plants which will thrive in tropical and semi-tropical regions. We fancy Messrs. Williams 

 :should do good business, for now that the great powers have grabbed all the waste places of the earth, they nmst turn to and 

 prove that they were worth the gralibing. We rccouunend the great Powers and Concessionaries under them to go to William 

 Brothers." 



Agents in London : Messrs. P. W. Woolley & Co., 90, Lower Thames Street. 

 Telegraphic Address : William HEN.iR.^TGOD.^, Ceylon. J. P. WILLIAM & BROTHERS, 



Lieber's, A.T. & A. B.C., Codes used. Tropical Seed Merchants, Henaratgoda, Ceylon. 



