425 



■Ointinents for tlie truiiics, 21, 

 Okras, 205. 



Onion cultivation, 62, 268. 

 Onion.s, exiiorts from Antigua, 268. 

 .Orange, a new, 276. 

 — , a suiierior, 100. 



— cultivation, 100. 



■ — industry of Seville, 308. 



— oil in the London market, 127, 159 



— peel in the London market, 29, 95, 

 127, 159, 287, .319. 



■ — planting in Dominica, 296. 



— syrup, 372. 



■ — wine from St. Vinceiit, iOi. 

 ■Oranges, budded, in Trinidad, 20, 292 

 — , — , treatment of, 132. 

 ■ — , curious, 169, 213. 

 ■ — , decaying, 114. 

 ■ — , how to pack, 36, 84. 

 — , imports into the United Kingdom, 

 268. 



— in Canada, 29, 156, 255. 



— — Cuba, 404. 



— , Jamaica, 36, 153, 292, 359. 



■ — on rough lemon stocks, 213. 



• — , seedless, in the United States, 124. 



■Ostrich feathers, defects in, 206. 



•Oxen, inoculation for anthrax, 7. 



P. 



Packing and transport of (jranges, 36. 

 Palm, rafKa, wax from, 373. 



— seeds from Trinidad, 300. 



— — , packing, 389. 



Palms, economic uses of, 366, 382. 

 Panama, agricultural school for, 332. 

 ■ — , Castilloa ruljber in, 361. 



— cocoa-nut industry, 324. 

 ■ — hat industry, 312. 



• — , vegetables for, 364. 



Papain exports from Montserrat, 217. 



— in the London market, 223. 

 Papaw, 229, 383. 



Para ruliber, area in Ceylon, 257. 



— — , cultivation of, 257. 



— — in St. Vincent, 126. 



— — — Trinidad, 257. 



— — — Uganda, 265. 

 — seed.s, 5, 92. 



Parasol ants, destruction of, 1 2. 



Paris green for cassava cateriiillars, 298. 



— — , means of apjilying, 46, 90, 

 362. 



Parrot, St. Vincent, 140. 



Pea nuts in the United States, 140. 



Pedigree sugar-canes, raising, 17, 19. 



Pei>pers from Nevis, sale of, 232. 



— , Nepaul, trial in Nevis, 252. 



Peripatus in the West Indies, 173. 



Permanent exhibition committees, 1, 72, 



168, 200. 

 Peru as a sugar-growing country, 227. 



Peru, rublier in, 283. 



Petrea voluljilis, white variety, 76. 



Phaseolus lunatus, 222. 



— Mungo for green manuring, 317. 

 Philipiiines cocoa-init industry, 201, 268. 

 Phillips, E. A. U., Windward Islands 



Scholarship, 37. 

 Physic nut, 251. 

 Pickford it Black, Messrs,, and Canadian 



exhibitions, 1, 146. 

 Picking cotton, 167. 

 Pimeirto exports fi-om .Jamaica, 348. 



in the London market, 29, 63, 95, 



127, 159, 223, 287, 319, 351, 399. 



— market, .Jamaica, 201, 348. 

 Pine-a^iple canning, 177. 



— — in Bahamas, 284. 



— — — Hawaii, 236. 



— — — • .Jamaica, 228. 



— — • — Porto llico, 252. 



— industry, Antigua, 177. 



— — , Azores, 204. 



— — , Bahamas, 4, 174, 372. 



— trade in Canada, 300. 

 Pine-apjiles from Dominica, 292. 



— in Porto Eico, 196. 

 Plant Disea.ses : — 



Anthracnose of cotton, 103, 182. 



— — pumelow, 92. 

 Bacterial diseases of tomatos, 151. 

 Banana, fungus disease of, 21. 



— , ripe rot of, 268. 



Brown-rot of lemons, 348. 



Canker disease of cacao, 266, 362. 



Cashew blight, 227. 



Castilloa rubber, fungus disease of, 362. 



Citrus trees, diseases of, 227. 



Cocoa-nut disease in Jamaica, 124. 



Colletotrichum gossypii, 103. 



Cotton rust, 183. 



Fungi, parasitic, 375. 



Fungus diseases in Ceylon, 362. 



— — , spread of, 41, 301, 321. 

 Gall on trees, 43. 

 Gloeosporium mangiferae, 227. 

 Marasmius .seniiustus, 21. 

 Mildew of cotton, 182. 



Para rubljer, fungus diseases of, 362. 

 Penicillium, 114. 

 Peronospora Schleideni, 233. 

 Prevention of fungus diseases by protec- 

 tive jungle belts, 379. 



— — introduction of fungus 

 diseases, 188. 



Smut, 347. 



Sugar-cane in Bengal, fungus diseases 

 of, 347. 



Sweet potatos, diseases of, 285. 



Witch-broom disease of cacao, 9, 189. 

 Plant productions, remarkable, 40. 

 Planters and pupils, 329. 

 Planting young trees too deeply, 263. 

 Plants for sale, 76. 



— in Bermuda, 89. 

 Porto Piico, agriculture in, 3, 249. 



— citrus industry, 236. 

 Porto Rico, cotton cultivation in, 279. 



— , — expoi'ts from, 316. 

 — , pine-apple canning factories in 

 252. 



— , pine apples in, 196. 

 — , rubber in, 318. 

 — sugar industry, 259. 

 — , tobacco cultivation in, 243. 

 Potato, a black, 60. 

 Potatos, sweet, cateriiillars on, 314. 

 Poultry : — 



Eggs at St. Lucia, 156. 

 — , size of dift'erent breeds, 252. 

 Fowls, varieties of, 190. 

 Gee.se, notes on, 110. 

 Guinea fowl, 30, 157. 

 Incubator trials, 154, 245. 

 Indian runner ducks, 190. 

 Raising, 3.''- >. 

 Turkeys, 1 5. 

 Powder bellows for a[iiilying Paris green, 



236. 

 Praedial larceny in Dominica, 121. 

 Prain, Lieut-Col. D., 9, 252. 

 Prize-holding scheme at Grenada, 60, 217. 

 — — — Jamaica, 396. 

 Produce inspection, Bermuda, 25, 72. 

 Production and prices of cotton, 279. 

 Pulle, A. A., Vascular plants from Suri- 

 nam, 109. 

 Pumelow in China, 68. 

 Punjab goats at Barbado.s, 412. 



Q 



Quassia chips in the London market, 287, 



Queensland, banana growing in, 297. 



— , central sugar mills in, 386. 



— , seedling canes in, 371. 



— , sugar-cane experiments in, 344. 



— ■ .sugar industry, 35, 291. 



— , West Indian seedling canes in, 115. 



R. 



Raffia palm, wax from, 373. 

 Raiti'eisen agricultural banks, 395 

 Rainfall in Antigua, 347. 

 — ■ Dominica, 124. 



— Grenada, 285, 300. 



— Nevi.s, 316. 



— St, Lucia, 327. 



— St. Vincent, 190. 

 , nitrogen in, 297. 



Rations for a pedigree bull, 61. 

 Ratooning cotton in the West Ind es 76 , 

 Rats, destruction of, 31, 267. 

 — in Samoa, 108. 

 Rhamnus Pur.shiana, 204. 



