Vol. XIV. No. 334. 



THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



63 



Tin- next method adopted is en more heroic. A 

 flaming spray produced by a machine 'which res 

 a plumber's blow-torch, only .( hundred times larger,' is used 

 to scorch the tree, the grass, md the ioQ beneath, until the 



npletely charred. In on< il I 1,933 i 



and 101,300 nurserj trei have b burned. S i rit'u 



are employed on the work. 



When leaving one grove foi an. ler, each man chai 

 his suit, the discarded one being i ected with corrosive 

 sublimate solution. No one is permitted to touch a tree. 



According to Stirling, 'canker is v ithoul doubt the most 

 infectious of anj known disease.' A certain t-acre grove 



ii grape-fruit trees, inspected in the first week oi June, wa 

 to all appearances free of canker. Three weeks later oi 

 began to show a slight infection upon one limb. Four days 

 later canker was found on five trei a mother week the 

 number infected was twentj seven, and there would have 



I. en lilli.ulty in picking fiftj bosses of diseased fruit. 



Canker is so deadlj ili.it a tree i- rendered worthless in two 



ir three months from the time oi infect ion. 



It will be seen that the citrus ranker situation in 



Florida is affording us the sj i an attempt abso 



lutely to eradic: Ii ase which has already b« me well 



established, and that in a district which must always be 

 exposed to reinfection over the land frontier of the 



State. 'I'll Ids against success are great, but the cost of 



failure would be verj heavy. 'It would be merelj a matter 

 if months before the canker would be entirely over the 

 irange belt The moral for the citrus-growing islands of the 

 West Indies is obvious. 



Hi. 15 oi v, bid) 

 1 8s. >'"/ for small washed, s 

 offered and bought in al 



1 of will' I 



fair washed ' loci in was 



m Mil GS, UACE, I'JMENTO, wn V.KJ 



At auction on the I (!t h, the rery largi ippl . oi 5 I 

 ol West [ndi i ;s was brought forward, 



and all were disposed of il the followin ;l - to 72 - 



• ;',./. to I Id., 74's to 85 so i i , 86's to94's l±d. I 



98's to I09's t^rf.to Ifrf., i to I 10 i | I to t $d., and 134 - 



- I \<i. to i '■'■. ' at 

 ented by III packages W> [i li n, all of which sold, good 

 fetching Is. 3d to 2*. lltf., andbrol i i Is. Sd. Pii 



has not been in great dem 1, I quoted in the middle 



month being 2fcd. per ft>. i 

 arrowroot, good manufacl uring i|j the 



middle of the month, 2\d per ft>., md common-, '2d. to '-","'. 



- iRSAPARILLA. 



At the first drug auct ion on Dei ber i irilla 



was represented bj 16 bales of gre} ' 22 of 



Lima-Jamaica, •">! of Mexican, and 25 of native Jan 

 Of the first, only 5 rere disposed of, is. 9rf. per tt>. 



being paid for rot litj Oi the Lima-Jamaica, 3 



bales of common, part ch i iundbuyersat Is. 8d. per lb.; 



and for 12 bales of the' native Jamaica, dull yellow to fair red, 

 Wd. to Is. per 111. was paid. The Mexican found ii" buyers, 

 but a week later Mexican in fair quantitj was to be had at 

 from Sd. to lOd. per lt>.. according to quality. 



i i I RII Min. KOI \. I . I M E OIL, LIW I JUICE, \M> 

 CASHED Nl TS. 



WEST INDIAN PRODUCTS. 



DRUGS AND SPICES IN THE LONDON 



MARKET. 



Mr. .1. K.Jacks, m, A.L.S., has forwarded the follow- 

 Qg report on the London drug and spice markets for 

 the month of 1 December : 



li is satisfactorj to be able to report that the amount 



.f businees done in the drug and spice markets during the 



early part "i December, has shown no diminution since our 



last report, taking, of course into consideration, that the 



tpproach of the Christinas holidays, even in peacetimes. 



always has the effect ot lessening the ordinary activity, which 

 is made mi. re prominent by the am ual stocktaking, so that 

 taking all these things into consideration, we may distinctly 

 saj that the markets are l.a.k to about their normal condi- 

 tion. With regard to the position oi individual products as 

 npared with our last report, we may say that citric acid and 



lime oil were easier than they Were at the close of last 



in.. nth, the former however becoming tinner at the time of 

 writing. 



The following are the principal details: — 



GINGER, 



At the first spice sale on the 9th of December, the 



imitation for middling to a I Jama ca was iii.v. to 15s. per 



cwt., 35s. to 36s. for common, and 22*. to 23s. for washed 

 lochin. A week later some 21 3 U.. ofCalicut were brought 



At the beginning ot the month citric acid was in good 

 supply at 2s. 'iV. per It... in .asks of •"> cw t. each. At the i I. 

 the month 2s. Id. was being asked. At the firs 

 was in good supply, 88 packages being offered, but nor 

 disposed of. It was stated, however, thai 3|d per ft.. 



was asked for good bright. Later in the month, ii.imi.-K 

 on the 16th, -I barrels were disposed of at \\<1. to 

 I pc per lb. for dried nuts. West Indian lime oil has 

 in good supply; 26 packages were offered at the first auction, 

 but no sales made: 3s. 3d. was th price asked for West 

 Indian distilled, and 8s. to8s. 6rf. for hand pressed. Foi 

 bright raw West Indian lime juice there has been a stead} 

 demand at from 2s. ('»/. to 2s. 9d. per gallon. At auction 

 on the 17th, 22 cases of cashew nuts were offered, the whole 



of which were bought in at 10s. per cwt. 



It is stated in the Annual Report on the Botanic Station, 

 British Honduras, 1913, that -eels from an edible bean from 

 Guatemala were presented to the Station a couple ot 

 ago by Mr. J. li. Boatman. Th.-. iwn, an. I a few 



plants raised and planted. < im- of the trees has growp up 

 well and liornea number i lug.- pods. The edible part of 

 this bean is the thick white arilus covering the bean inside 

 the pod; the plain is evidently one of the Ingas {Inga 

 spectabilis?), which according to the Treasury of Botany, is 



.1 tree indigei s to Central America. It grows in Pa 



and there the seed inside the pods, covered with a sweet white 

 pulp, is eagcrlj eaten. Tl ■ Inga makes a fine spreading 



shade tree, giving pi d wee! Hing white flowers 



twice a \ ear. 



