THE CUBA REVIEW 



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These conferences were organized at the instigation of Prof. Mario Calvino, with the 

 character of practical classes and discussions on agriculture, in the same manner as is done by 

 the Itinery Classes of Agriculture in Italy, which have shown such good results in that country; 

 having given three conferences already in the Agricultural Station of Santiago de las Vegas, 

 one in Giimes and another in Guanajay, a very useiul work which will be vigorously continued. 



We congratulate the Agricultural Department and especially Doctors Sanchez Agra- 

 monte and Carlos Armenteros, the Secretary and under-Secretary respectively of the De- 

 partment, for the good results of their endeavors. 



This photograph shows four weeks' growth in m.idwinter. 



PEACH TREES IN THE TROPICS 



Peaches are native to temperate climates, 

 but nevertheless it has been found in Cuba 

 that the Red Ceylon variety does well, and 

 bears heavily the second year and successive 

 years. There is a tree at the Experiment 

 Station at Santiago de las Vegas that was 

 planted more than ten years ago, and it bears 

 every year more or less according to the care 

 it receives. There are many trees planted in 

 the island, some of which having had good 

 attention are bearing from 500 to 1,000 na- 

 tive peaches of fair size. The Red Ceylon 

 peach is a small variety, but when it is well 



grown it is of excellent quality. Agriculture, 

 Cuba, May, 1917, gives directions for the 

 planting, caring and pruning of peach trees 

 in that climate. These directions emphasize 

 the importance of fertilizing and mulching 

 the grovmd, copious watering, and severe 

 pruning. 



Some peach trees were imported, and 

 planted in the Botanic Station, Montserrat, 

 in 1912. They flowered freely in 1914, but 

 produced no fruit. In 1915 they had gotten into 

 very bad condition, and the experiment was 

 discontinued. It may be, however, that the 

 varieties imported were not suitable to tropic 

 conditions. — Agricultural News 



