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have made better growth than any others. Some of these, and 
a few of the others, have attained a height of 2 feet, or a little 
more, 
The average growth of the 100 plants has not been half that of 
these few favoured ones. any have made a poor growth for the 
reasons already explained, namely, the confining of the roots by the 
palm shells in which some were planted, or the feeble constitutions 
of those few which came up from the seeds planted directly im the 
permanent rows after the rains began and beat the ground hard. 
Besides these, many are still small because they have been cut off 
by insects—I do not know of what kind, This insect cuts off the 
two highest leaves and the terminal bud between, and does it in the 
night. Plants so cut die if so small that no buds are left below 
the cut ; if buds are left, these grow, but very slowly. The little 
trees suffered from this cause even before transplanting, excepting 
those that were started in the trays on my verandah. 
Trees of the size reached by these 1,000 now, as well as the few 
larger ones started in previous years, are liable to be injured by 
caterpillars which, if not removed, strip them of their leaves. I go 
over all my trees about once in a week or 10 days, and remove the 
caterpillars, which are easy to see and are never found on many 
trees at once. At the time when I was transplanting, last March, 
I also planted more seeds in nursery rows near my house. Here 
the ground was kept loose and clean; the seeds came up well and 
the plants grew well. These were left over the dry season of June- 
August. There is a double year of two dry and two rainy seasons 
here. About the last of September, on several rainy days, I trans- 
planted them into the places where trees were missing of the first 
planting. These trees last transplanted had grown to such a size 
that setting them out made much more work than the first trans- 
planting in March, but most of them have lived and are beginning 
to grow again. 
When the little Funtumia trees are about 6 inches high they 
begin to dichotomize. I have always picked off one of the terminal 
buds, whenever I have found two. This seems to be necessary in 
order to give the trees the proper shape at the start. 
Gro. L. BATES. 
Rubber Trees as Shade for Cacao—Mr. A. E. Casse, who left 
Kew in March, 1900, to take up the position of Superintendent of 
the Plantations, Bayeux, Haiti, has sent the following notes on 
rubber trees as shade for cacao to the Director for publication. 
The question as to ‘Shade or No Shade’ for cacao has received 
considerable attention in the West Indies, and a short summary 
account of the matter with a list of reference will be found in the 
Kew Bull. Additional Series ix, pp. 98 and 102-104. 
“As well among colonial planters as in the ages of periodicals 
devoted to tropical agriculture, a question often discussed is this : 
‘Can India Rubber and Cacao successfully and economically be 
