354 
The historical notes are full of interest, and each subject is fully 
dealt with. Such matters as soils, cultivation, diseases, insecticides, 
fungicides, collection of the product and its preparation for com- 
merce, being included. 
e work runs into some 250 pages, and is well printed, but some 
of the illustrations are unworthy of inclusion. ere is one 
omission, namely, that of the Caraway (Carum Carvi), which is 
largely produced in some European countries, and is most certainly 
an important spice ; also, it is not conclusive that Corianders are 
not still produced in this country on a commercial scale. 
J. M.H. 
Sisal in Papua.— The following remarks from a sisal expert in 
Queensland, reporting on a visit to a plantation in Papua, have 
been sent to Kew by a correspondent :— 
. 3 . . . 
—— (L’ Agriculture pratique des pays chauds), Nos. 101-107, 
though no statement to the effect that the articles have appeared 
before is made in the brochure itself. ‘The full title of the work is 
The work is intended for the . it j in Vi 
planter who, it is thought, in view 
of the fact that so much of the literature a the genus is deattered 
