TRINIDAD. No. 46. 



BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT. 



BULLETIN 



OF 



(QUARTERLY.) 



APRIL, 1905. 



CONTENTS. 



680.— How to tell what Food Plants want. 



681.— The shape of Plant Stems. 



682.— Phosphoric Acid required by Cacao. 



683.— A Stalk-eyed Crustacean. 



684.— Cane vs. Beet. 



685.— Cacao Disease. 



686.— Cuba's Agricultural Experiment Station. 



687.— An Experiment with the Falm Beetle.— (Rhyncophorut 



palmarum. ) 

 688.— A Handy Cane MM— {Illustrated.) 

 689.— Sun Spots. 



690.— The preparation of Fruit Pulp. 

 691.— Birds useful, destructive or objectionable. 

 692.— Methods of Tapping Rubber Trees and Collecting- Latex. 

 693.— Cost of Milk in New Jersey, U. S. America. 

 694.— Colonial and Indian Exhibition. 

 695.— Agricultural Show. 

 696.— Mulching. 

 697— Sterilized Fruits. 

 698.— Percentages. 



699.— How a Small Settler should Cure his Coffee. 

 700.— Purple Leaf Canes. 

 701.— A Freak Banana. 

 702.— A Record of work in Agricultural Instruction, for 



1903-4. 



Edited by the Sitpt. Botanical Department : 

 J. H. HART, F.L.S. 



TEINIDAD : , 



PRINTED AT THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, PORT-OF-SPAIN. 



1905. 



