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THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS. 



December 1, 1917. 



EDITORIAL 



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SCIE^'TIFIC STAFF. 



scientific Assistant and 

 Assistaid Editor 



Entomologists 



Mycologist 



(W. R. Dunlop.* 



\Rev. C. H. Braucli. B.A. 



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\J. C. Hutson, B.A., Pii.D. 



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Vol. XVI. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1917. No. 407. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



The editorial in this number continues to discuss 

 the question of interest in education, especially in 

 secondary schools. 



On pages 372 and 378 will be found short reviews 

 of (1) the Report of the Agricultural Department, 

 St. Kitts-Nevis, 191«-16, and (2) the last report on 

 sugar-cane experiments in Barbidos. 



Under Insect Notes, on ])age .S7JS, there is 

 a serious warning with regard to the possibility of the 

 introduction of the pink boll worm of cotton into 

 these islands. 



Philippe de Vilmorin. 



By the death of this well-known horticulturist on; 

 June 30, noticed in iVature, October 4, 1917, a brilliant 

 figure has been removed from the horticultural world- 

 one that science can ill afford to lose. Head of the 

 great firm of Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., probably the 

 greatest seedsmen in the world, de Vilmorin placed its 

 resources freely at the service of the science to the 

 interests of which he was devoted. His experimental 

 researches on Mendelian lines are well known, and of 

 great value. He took advantage of a great oppor- 

 tunity to further his earnest desire to bring prac- 

 tical and scientific workers into close contact with 

 one another for their mutual profit, by undertaking 

 the work of Secretary to the Fourth International 

 Congress on Genetics, which met at Paris in 1911. 

 We may mention that through him a bronze medal 

 was sent to the Imperial Department of Agriculture 

 for the West Indies from that Congress, in recognition 

 of the Department's work in investigations concerning 

 plant problems in the tropics. De Vilmorin assisted 

 in the progress of horticulture in many directions. He 

 was also responsible for important publications of his 

 firm, standard works on flower gardens, and also for 

 a valuable report on rare and little-known plants 

 tested by the firm. No man ever helped more to 

 bridge over the gulf that seemed to e.xist between 

 the horticulturist and the scientific botanist. 

 Such success in this direction as has already been 

 achieved owes much to Philippe de Vilmorin. 



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The Green Lime Trade of Dominica. 



According to the Colonizer, M.ii\ 1917, almost 

 every lime consumed in New York comes at present 

 from Dominica, but it is hardly to be expected that 

 the Americans will not develop an industry of their 

 own in this product in Americau tropical territory. 

 Large areas in fact are being put under limes in Porto 

 Rico, and considering that Porto Rico is at least a day 

 or two nearer New York than Dominica, it is quite 

 possible that a Porto Rican extension of this industry 

 may have an injurious effect upon the Dominica trade 

 The demand will no doubt continue to expand, and 

 there will be room for fruit from both island,^, but it is 

 almost certain that limes from Porto Rico would be 

 placed on the New York market in a better condition 

 than those from Dominica. A very high percentage of 

 the fruit might reach the onsumer in a perfectly green 

 condition, and not in a yellow, and sometimes quite 

 overripe state. 



The American, like the West Indian, knows the 

 difference between a green and a yellow lime in 

 a beverage. The flavour of the green rind is a very 

 important factor, therefore a green lime is preferred, 

 and will command a better price. It would be well for 

 Dominica shippons to give these facts careful consider- 

 ation. Meanwhile every care should be taken to ship 

 only sound, well graded, and freshly picked green limes. 

 in order to maintain as high a standanf as possible in 

 the New York market, for the Dominica fruit is at 

 present recognized, when compared with limes from 

 other places, as superior to all others. 



