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Vol. XIV. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1915. No. 350. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



Thi editorial in this number urges the importance 

 of studying the individual plant in, tropical cultivation. 

 Rel I'l.'. is madi to the work that has been done on 

 cotton, cuco-nuts and rubber, whilje attention is called 

 to the neglecl of the sugar-cane. 



Sugar Industry contains an interesting article on 

 some recent tours for the study of factor) conditions. 



Under the heading of Weal [ndian Fruit, on 

 308 will be found a hitherto unpublished 

 I ..I Blue Mountain i 'offee m Jamaica 



An appreciative article published by a contem- 

 porary. on the suibjecl of Wesl Indian baj oil appears 

 ,n pagi 310. 



Contents of Present Issue 



A considerable amount of space is devoted t' 

 nt local Itural interesl in this issue, on 



310. 



Under Insect No page 314 will be found 



two important articles. The bj Mr. W. 



Ball ■■■■ 



ol cut ton seed. 1 1 is i in this that the dai 



done by stainer bugs to si ed is less dm to the nutri- 

 ment ili'\ remove than to the poisons which they 

 behind. Secondarily, fungi and bacteria maj 

 othold i omplications. Thi ed ad 



article by the En ton of this Depai 



sates thai thrips on cacao constitute a 'danger 



al' rather than an acl ual pi 



A review of the Report on the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, Dominica 1914-15, just issued by this Office 

 will be found on page •">! 7. 



Fungus Notes, which will be found on page 318, 

 comprise two articles: diseases of citrus in the Isle ol 

 Pines, which is a review of the first Annual Report on 

 the new Citrus Pathological Laboratory, San Pedro; 

 the second concerns the important subject of die-back 

 of lime trees iii Montserrat, in which reference is made 

 tn the first article. 



Mr. J. L. E. R. Lake. 



At a recent tin- of the Antigua Agricultural 



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and Commercial Society, a resolution was passed to the 

 effect that 'the Society desires to place on record its 

 deep regret at the death of Mr. J. L. E. 1!. Lake in the 

 service ef his country wit h the British Expeditionary 

 Fence in the Dardanelles, and tenders to the relations 

 of the deceased officenits sinceresl sympathy in the 

 deep and irreparable loss they have sustained.' 



Thi-- opportunitj is taken of participating in the 

 »oing resolution, and of expressing regret at the 



: on active service of an officer formerly associated 

 with this 1 >epartment. 



Mr. Lake joined the staff of the Government 

 Laboratory, Leeward Islands m September 1907, and 

 left to go to Met Jill Universitj to stud} engineerii 

 September I'M I Ai the outbreak of war he went to 

 England and obtained a commission as second Lieu- 

 tenant in the Border Regiment 



He had previously been slightly wounded and 

 returned to the tiring line. He was reported wounded 

 mi August 22, 1915, and died iii hospital on August 24 



The Double Coco-nut Palm in the West Indies. 



At the last Agricultural Conference, held at 

 Trinidad in 1!»I2, a specimen of the fruit of the 

 dun hie coco-nut or coco- do- 1 mi- 1 Lodoicea sechellarum ) 

 was exhibited, which had been grown in the British 

 Guiana Botanic Gardens. Theexhibit possessed all the 

 greater interest because, as was explained, the sp. cimi i 

 shewn was probably the first example of the fruit 



