THE CUBA REVIEW 



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Winter Haven Nurseries 



Established 1884. 



A. M. KLEMM, Proprietor 



Winter Haven, Fla. 



Wholesale Growers of Citrus Stock of the best commercial varieties. We 

 guarantee our extensive Stock to be well grown, free of insects and true 

 to name. 



Silver Cluster Qrape Fruit our leading Specialty. 



Prices right. Grading and Packing perfect. Write for Catalogue. 



llustrations. 



The Standard Guide to Cuba -'^^"'"^'^-'^7^^',3,; 



FOSTER Sa RHVBiOI^DS, ± 9Iadison Avenue, :Ke'w York. 



BUSINESS FIRMS OF SANTIAGO 



E. GIRAUDY ft CA. 



ALMACEN DE VIVERES 

 Marina baja n. 33, Santiago de Cuba. 

 Agentei de Schlitz Beer. 



JULIAN CENDOYA 



Steamship Agent and Broker 



COMMISSION MERCHANT 



CABLE: Cendoya. Santiago de Cuba. 



VALLS, RIBERA ft CA. 

 (S. en C.) 

 Importadores de Fcrreteria y Machinery. 

 Teligrafo: Valribe. 



Santiago de Cuba y Manzanillo. 



A. B. C. Code, 5th Edition. Telephone, 190. 



P. O. Box, 95. Cable address: SILVAPA. 



SILVA Y PARRENO H. 



General Commission Merchants. 



Custom House Brokers — Forwarding Agents. 



Consignees of the Cuban steamers of the Carlos J. 



Trujillo, S. en C, Line, formerly Menendez & Co. 



References: — J. Cendoya and Nat'l Bank of Cuba. 



CAMP HERMANOS, Santiago de Cuba. 



Ron Selecto "Golondrina" y "Carta Cuba." 



Medalla de Ore, St. Louis, 1904. 



RON BACARDI 



DE BACARDI & CO., Distillers, Proprictori. 



43 San Ignacio, cor. Santa Clara, Havana, 



Santiago de Cuba. 



LARREA Y BESEALIE 



Importers of General Groceries and Exporters of 



Cocoa, Wax, Honey and Woods. 



Apartado 65, Marina Baja 46. Cable: Larrem. 



Importacion. Exportaci6n. 



L. ABASCAL Y SOBRINOS 

 Agentes de las lineas Pinillos Izquierdo y Ca., de 

 Cadiz. Larrinaga y Ca., de Liverpool. Com- 

 pafiia de Seguros, Aachen & Munich, Aix-la- 

 Chapelle. 



BROOKS ft CO. 



Bankers and General Commission Merchants. 

 Santiago and Guantanamo. 



The cultivation of the tea 



Home- plant can safely be risked 



Grozvn where the temperature sel- 



Tea. dom falls below 24° F. and 



never goes below zero, and 



where the annual rainfall exceeds 50 inches, 



30 inches or more of this precipitation 



occurring during the cropping season.* 



A well-drained friable and easily pi-uf- 

 trable clay loam or sandy loam containing 

 a large amount of organic matter is best. 

 Very tenacious undrained soils or very 

 sandy soils that lack water-retaining prop- 

 erties are not good; neither will the plants 

 tr.Ierate stagnant water in the subsoil. 



Seed should be planted in the autumn or 

 winter just before a rain. Plants may be 

 sc; out twelve to eighteen months from the 

 time of sowing the seed, 2 feet apart in 

 hedge rows along fences or walks, where 



they can serve for ornamental purposes, or 

 2 to 5 feet apart in 5-foot rows. 



The soil should be thor- 



KiiiJ of Soil oughly pulverized by spading 



and or plowing as deep as pos- 



Ciiltiz'ation sible ; then it should be 



Required. leveled and holes 9 to 12 



inches deep made. The plants 



sli(,uld be placed in the holes with the tap- 



riot straight down. If too long it should 



be cut. 



In the autumn this plant is co\ered with 

 hrindsome. fragrant, whitish flowers, hav- 

 ing a golden yellow center. The crop of 

 an average tea Inish is abnul three onnces 

 ot cured tea, so that 100 plants will yield 

 about 18 pounds a year. A pound makes 

 from 350 to 400 cups of tea. — U. S. Dept. 

 01 Agriculture Bulletin No. 301. 



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