£28 
short tons, value $1,312,000, or an increase in this dye-stuff 
alone of 32 per cent. over the production of 1909.* may be 
The Logwood tree is easily raised from seed and the cultiva- 
tion is simple, the growth rapid and in favourable situations it 
spreads so quickly as to become naturalised, as in Jamaica, and 
thinning and cutting are about all the attention required. In 
any event, started on waste land it might prove a safe speculation 
for feeding bees and the production of honey. Provided the tem- 
perature is tropical with a good rainfall, soil would seem to be 
of secondary consideration, though Dampier, whose description of 
the tree and its native surroundingst is given below, says it will 
not thrive in dry ground. His information otherwise, however, 
till April or May; then comes in the wet season which begins 
with tornados. . . Z 
The 
soil is a strong yellowish clay, the upper coat or surface is a 
black mold tho’ not deep. Here grow divers sorts of trees 
white thorns, but the body and the old branches are blackish ; 
* Commerce Report, Washington, Can 102, 1916, May 1st, p. 407. 
t Voy. and Advent., i. (1769), pp. 57-59. : We 
a Ses Mr. Boodle’s Somat on the Museum specimens under Hi. Brasileito. 
