410 



Papain, 103, 292. 



- — in the London market, 287. 



Papaw in tli ' Transvaal, 68. 



— juice, :i i9. 



■ — — in the London market, 29. 

 Paraguay, a now sugar [ilant from, 24t*. 

 Para rubber as shade fur cacao, 347. 



— • — , extraction of, 51. 



— — in British Ouiana, 383. 



— — — the Malay States, 11, 364. 



— — StraitsSettlemeiits, 3.59. 



— — Trinidad, 76. 



— — industry, 271. 



— — planting, 244. 



— — seeds, germinating, 293. 

 Paris green and bees, 284. 



— — , application of, 282. 



— — , — to cotton, 358. 



— — , powder gun for, 282. 



— — , price of, 264. 



Patterson, W. H., resident master of 



St. Vincent Agricultural School, 43. 

 Paullinia barbadensis, 143, 300. 

 Pepper.s from Nevis, 280. 

 Peru, guano in, 245. 

 Philippines, copra in, 381. 

 — , e.xports of, 377. 



Philipps, Owen, Barbados bananas, 353. 

 Picture post cards. West Indian, 28. 

 Pigeon jieas, white, 110. 

 Pig rearing in Trinidad, 157. 



— sties, con.struction of, 44. 

 Pimenta officinalis in Jamaica, 295. 

 Pimento, artificial coloration of, 156. 



— growing in Jamaica, 84, 295. 



— in the London market, 29, 111, 143, 

 175, 223, 255, 287, 319, 351, 383. 



— , oil of, in the London market, 383. 

 Pine-apple cultivation in Trinidad, 204. 



— — — St. Lucia, 316. 

 • — industry in Antigua, 133. 



— juice, 377. 



Pine-apples, canned, exports fr<ini Hawaii, 



188. 

 — , canning in Hawaii, 68. 

 — , fungoid diseases in Antigua, 172. 

 — , hybridization of, 340. 



— in the Bahamas, 196. 

 — , Porto Rican, in Dominica, 20. 

 — , shading, 292. 

 — , West Indian, in English market, 52. 

 Pink, Frank, Banana trade, 137. 



Pink it Sons, W., medal for Barbado.« 



bananas at R.H.S. E.xhibitinn, 14(1. 

 Pithecolobium Saman, 327. 



— — as shade for cacao, 30(t. 

 Plague and rats, 233. 



Plantain fibre, 364. 



Plantains in British Honduras, 388. 



Plant Diseases : — 



Banana, 324. 



Cacao, 36, 162. 



— in British Guiana, 121, 137,204. 



— pod disease, 189. 



— thread di-sease, 117,236. 



— witch broom disease, 135, 260. 

 Cocoa-nut palm bud-rot, 369. 



Plant diseases {Continued) : — 



Cocoa-nuts, 121. 



Coiiper sulphate for, 204. 



Coral-spot disease, 43. 



Cotton anthracnose, 246. 



-- black boll, 246. 



— ru.st, 246. 



Diplodia cacaoicola, 137. 



Grapes, 309. 



Logwood root rot, 389. 



Marasmius semiustus, 324. 



Nectria, 43. 



Phytophthora omnivora, 137. 



Pine-apple.s, 172. 



Pipe rot or anthracno>e of banana.s, 

 189. 



Root rot of logwood trees, 389. 



Seed infection, 55. 



Seeds treated with corrosive sublimate, 

 55. 



Tomatos, bacterial disease of, 43. 

 Plant food, effect of scarcity, 1 1 . 

 Planting by the moon, 204. 

 Plant nurseries in St. Vincent, 165. 



— stems, shape of, 11. 

 Ploughs, disc, 75. 



— , electric, in Italy, 157. 

 Porter, D. K., & Co., St. ^'incent arrow- 

 root, 45. 

 — , W. H., seedless limes, 36. 

 Porto Rico, industries of, 201. 



— — , Naudet diffusion process in, 



259. 



28.'^ 



— , report on Exjieriment Station, 



— , school gardens in, 283. 

 — , sugar industry in, 195. 

 — , tobacco cultivation in, 296. 

 — , trade in drawn thread work, 

 380. 



Post cards, picture, of Colonial Exhibi- 

 tion, 300. 

 Vitato.s, deterioration of, 190. 

 — , English, in Jamaica, 84. 

 — , — , .seed for West Indies, 152. 



Poui in Dominica, 204. 

 Poultry, diseases of, 6. 

 — , imported, in Antigua, 283. 

 — , improved breeds at Halifax exhibi 



tion, 252. 

 — , — — in Nevis, 107. 



— keejiing and gardening, 142. 



— rearing, effect in breeding, 1 2. 



— , turkeys, varieties in Dominica, 6. 



Pra'dial larceny, 28, 72, 172. 



Prize holdings scheme for Grenada, 375. 



Q 



Queen of flowers, 317. 



Queensland, sisal hemp in, 250. 



— sugar-cane seedling B. 208 in, 387 



Quillaja bark, 284. 



— in the London market, 287, 

 383. 



Sail 



284. 



R. 



Rabbits, Belgian hares, 103. 



— in the United Kingdom, 171. 

 — , movable hutches for, 83. 



— wanted in British (iuiana. 111. 

 Raitfeisen agricultural banks, 49, 73, 186, 



265. 



— ■ in Cypress, 153. 



Rainfall returns, Antigua, 86, 238. 



— — , Bermuda, 204. 



— — , Carriacou, 123. 



— — , Dominica, 247. 



— — , Grenada, 123. 



— — , Jamaica, 171. 



— — , Leeward Island.s, 151. 



— — , Montserrat, 76. 



— — , St. Kitt's, 143. 



— — , St. Lucia, 86. 



~ — , St. Vincent, 171, 220, 247. 



— — , Tortola, 188. 



Rain gauges for St. Vincent, 396. 

 Ramie in the West Indies, 364. 

 Ratooning cotton, 246. 

 Rats and mice, destruction of, 53, 233, 

 247. 



— — — , virus for exterminatioa of, 

 247. 



— — plague, 233. 

 Rat virus, 247. 



— , experiments with, 169, 233. 

 — , in Antigua, 237, 348. 

 — , - Dominica, 319, 322. 

 — , — Trinidad, 268. 

 Ravenala madagascariensis, flowering of,. 



44, 57. 

 Re-afforestation plots in Antigua, 284. 

 Rice cultivation in British Guiana, 25, 

 124, 188, 277; 316, 344. 



— — — Surinam, 41, 265. 



— — — LInited States, 85. 

 Robson, Wm., Curator of ]\Iontserrat Ex- 

 periment Station, 126. 



Roses in St. Kitt'.s, 197. 



Royal Horticultural Society's Fruit Ex- 

 hibition, 20, 25, 60, 68, 84, 180, 244, 

 268, 308, 312, 340, 396. 



— ■ — — — — , Barbados bananas 

 at, 137. 



— — — — —, — fruit for, 92. 



— Mail Comijany and Barbados bananas, 

 32.5, 353. 



— — steamers, cold storage for, 248. 

 Rubber, a new source of, 265. 



— , Castilloa, 249. 



— ex[iorts from Ivory Coast, 380. 



— from bananas, 156. 



— industr}', Ceylon, 297. 



— — , Para, 271. 



— in British Guiana, 190, 332. 



— — Dominica, 217. 



— — Hawaii, 393. 



— — Java, 43. 



St. Kitt's, 252, 260. 



— — St. Lucia, 382. 



— — Tobago, 44. 



— — the German colonies, 7. 



