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tend to keep the disease in check and it' the cockroach can be proved 

 to be the means of this destruction, it follows, that where there are 

 plenty of these insects there will be little canker fungus— as the 

 insect is actually destroying its means of reproduction. 



729. -THE LATE THOS. CHRISTY, F.L.S. 



To our extreme regret by last mail, we received news 

 of the death on 7th September of the well known head of 

 the firm of Thos. Christy & Co. of 4, 10 and 12, Old Swan Lane, 

 Upper Thames Street. E.C., and of the Manor House, Wellington. 

 Mr. Christy's efforts in respect to the introduction of new Tropical 

 products have long been widely recognised, and in the direction of 

 Applied Botany, his energy and enthusiasm were unbounded, and of 

 the highest order. If anyone required seeds of new plants the advice 

 was "Better try Christy." The writers connection with the firm 

 dates some 25 years since, when he was supplying Cinchona seeds to 

 the Jamaica Botanical Department. Subsequently we were officially 

 indebted to his firm for things not otherwise easy to obtain, and were 

 in constant receipt of hints and memos from his pen, of a valuable 

 character. His suggestions for the packing of Tropical fruits, per- 

 sonally conveyed to me while last in London will be embodied in the 

 information promised in following article. He will be greatly missed, 

 especially by the writer, who now pays this small tribute to his 

 memory. 



730. -MANGOS AT THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN 



EXHIBITION. 



The first consignment of Mangos sent by the local Committee 

 while the writer held the post as Commissioner for Trinidad, arrived 

 in excellent condition and fully ripe. 



Some of this fruit was sent through the kind offices of the West 

 India Committee to His Majesty the King, as recorded in last issue of 

 this Bulletin. A smaller lot was sent to Sir William Thistleton- 

 Dyer, K.C.M.G., Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, who in acknow- 

 ledging them states ; — " They seemed to me in superb condition and 

 were quite a revelation. I congratulate yon heartily on this splendid 



success. 



Another lot was forwarded to the late Thos. Christy Esq., who 

 wrote: — " I have many years ago eaten mangos in the East Indies, 

 but I neoer thought at that time' that they could be brought to such 

 -perfection as those yon sent me hare arrived «/." 



Some were sent to Messrs. Monro of Covent Garden Market, who 

 wro te :— '• Mangos useless, some too ripe, others had colour. 11 e con- 

 sider the o (l c named mango D'Or to be the most saleable one. The 



