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ADVICE TO THE OWNERS OF DAMAGED 

 COCO-NUT TREES. 



By W. Cradwick, Travelling Instructor 



I find on personal examination of Coco-nut trees which are appa- 

 rently little injured by th« hurricane of 11th August, that many of 

 them have had the young and tender leaves badly damaged, and many 

 of the damaged leaves are rotting and injuring the heart leaves which 

 are now trying to push their way through the battered and bruised 

 young leaves All trees should have immediate and careful attention, 

 all damaged parts of the young leaves should be cut away, so as to 

 prevent further rotting 



I find that in many trees the young leaves are so twisted and twined 

 together that it is impossible for the young heart leaves to push their 

 way out of the twisted leaves, and that under these green looking 

 young leaves there are often leaves rotting from being battered by the 

 storm 



The twisted leaves should be opened out, the rotten rubbish rem >ved, 

 all dead leaves, or dead pieces cut off, or they will rot in the heart of 

 the tree and injure the young shoots of both leaves and flowers. 



Trees which have been blown down, but which are not killed, 

 should be got into position as near as possible to what they were before 

 the storm, but do not strain the roots in attempting this ; remember 

 that tho trees have need of every good root and green leaf ju>t now 

 more than ever. Do not cut off any green leaves even if they are 

 broken badly. 



If part of the base is not out of the ground which was formerly 

 covered with earth, re-cover it at once with good earth, and the roots 

 will grow again. 



[Issued 7th Nov., 1903.] 

 Printed at the Govt. Printing Office, Kingston, Jam. 



