carbon bisulphide. If the receptacle be tight, 1 oz. ol bisulphide will 

 suflice for each 60 cubic feet of space. The treatment Bhould lust for 

 thirty-six hours." 



AUTHORITIES UTILIZED. 



•• Carbon Bisulphide <(« an insecticide: W. E. Hinds." 

 Farmers' Bulletin L45, U.S.A. Dept. of Agriculture. 



'• Insects affecting Tobacco : L. 0. Howard." 



Farmers' Bulletin 120, U.S.A. Dept. of Agriculture. 

 Household Insects of U.S.A. : F. H. Chillenden." 



•• Chemistry of the Garden : II. II. Cousins. Macmillan & Co., Ltd." 



588. -GARCIA NUTANS, Rohr. 



Several fine trees of this Euphorbiacous plant are growing in the 

 •Gardens. Seed recently examined in Furope have been found to 

 contain a strong purgative, resembling that which forms the active 

 principle in Bicinus which affords the castor oil of commerce. 



589.-AS OTHERS SEE US- 



Herr Bernh. Othmer, Curator of the Botanic Gardens of 

 Munich, Bavaria, is visiting Trinidad on a short Botanical Tour, 

 and is collecting specimens of the Island flora in the several districts. 

 He has already visited Toucouche, the Aripo Savannah, the woodlands 

 of Valencia, &c, and expresses his delight at the luxuriant character 

 of the vegetation. One of his first remarks on entering the precincts 

 of the Botanic Gardens was devoted to what he called the "glorious" 

 character of the Epiphytical vegetation on the trees of the Garden. 

 Local opinion, probably from its constant familiarity with these forms 

 of vegetable life, does not set so high a value upon them as the visitor, 

 but it is certain they form one of the most interesting features of the 

 Island flora, and are much admired by all scientific men connected 

 with Botanical Science. 



Professor D. G. Fairchild, who as an Agricultural Explorer has 

 been round the world with the expedition of Mr. Lathrop, and has 

 seen all the West Indian establishments, writes as follows in the 

 Bulletin of Plant Industry, No. 27 : — 



" The most fully equipped Botanical Garden, and the most 

 •' profitable place in the West Indies for American students 

 " who wish to learn the elements ol Tropical Agriculture 

 "" is here in Trinidad where a comfortable Laboratory, and 

 "■ an unusually rich economic Botanic Garden 

 " would enable a young American to pursue any line of 

 "■ research relating to the culture of tropical plants." 

 This must be considered a high compliment to the Trinidad 

 Botanical Establishment, as it is written by a man who has practically 

 seen all the Botanical Services of the world during the past three 

 years, and it is here produced as a permanent record of the state of 

 the Establishment at the present date, and that residents may have 

 the satisfaction of knowing the opinion of qualified experts on the. 

 Botanical Department as maintained by the Trinidad Government. 



