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DEPARTMENT OF AURICULTURE. 



Vol. II. NOVEMBER. 1904. Part 11. 



EXPORT OF BREADFRUIT. 



Anthony Bean, Esq., Holstein, Spring Hill, P.O., to Director of Public 



Gardens and Plantations. 



28th September, 1904. 

 Dear Sir, 

 I have just read in the Bulletin for September, 1 904, at page 214 

 about the shipping of breadfruit from this Island to the other 

 countries. 



Pa: 2. " No other similar attempt has been made, so far as records 

 are known to us." 



I am in a position to say that the late Rev. Wm. Smith, Rector 

 of Portland, when he was Curate at Golden Grove, St. Thomas-ye- 

 East, occasionally shipped breadfruit to his friends in England, by 

 sailing ship, from Port Morant. 



He used to thoroughly roast the fruit and pack it, unscraped, in 

 barrels. It always reached its destination in good condition and 

 was duly appreciated by the recipients. 



When required for use it was heated in an ordinary kitchen 

 oven, then scraped and sent to table. 



Yours faithfully, 



(Sgd.) Anthony Bean. 



CHEMICAL NOTES ON " BASTARD" LOGWOOD.* 



By Benjamin C. Gruenberg and William J. Gies. 



[From the Bulletin of the Toney Botanical Club, ;^1 . H(i7-o77. July, 1.04.] 



During the past few years the growers of logwood in Jamaica 

 have been greatly disturbed by an apparent increase on their 

 properties of an unmerchantable variety of the plant known as 

 " bastard" logwood. t The exportation of this wood along with 

 real logwood has served to condemn all the logwood from the 

 districts which have shipped it.+ 



" Bastard" logwood differs from the genuine varieties, from the 



* From ttie New York Botanical Garden, New York. Some of the chemical work was 

 done ia the laboratory of physiological chemistry of Columbia University. 



tFaweett: Bulletin of the Botanical Department, Jamaica, 3: 179. 1896. 



1 Clipping from a Kingston. Jamaica, newspaper, sent to Dr. D. T. MacDougal by 

 Mr. William Fawcett (September, I9ul.) 



