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INDEX. 



10 



29 

 31 

 23 

 3i 

 33 

 31 



Page. 



Copra, Export of 10, 168 



, Oil from a Candy of 10 



, Production of 10, 26, 90, 148 



Cost of Opening Land 9 



Crotalaria 97 



Cultivation, Uses of 114 



D. 



De Candolle's Theory of O.igin 



of Coconuts 7 



Desiccated Coconut 10, 27 



. from 1,001' 



Nuts 

 Desiccating Factory, Estimate 



for a 

 Desmotascus Cocoes 

 Disc-harrowing 

 Disease, Root 



, , Stem 



Diseases of the Coconut Palm 

 Distances of Planting 22, 88 



Dolomites 159 



Draining 24, 98 



Drier Districts, Cultivation in 24 

 Driers, Copra 27 



Dr. Geehens's Chart 139 



Drought, How to Combat 126 



Dry Farming of Coconuts 98 



Drying of Copra 26 



E. 



Earliest known Palms in Ceylon 7 



Elevations for Coconuts 9, 91 



Enemies of the Coconut 

 Palm 36, 41, 47, 51 



Estimates for Opening a Coco- 

 nut Estate 61, 69 



Europeans and Coconut Planting 8 



"Evaporation from Coconut 

 Leaves 14 



Exports of Coconut 



Products 8, 10, 168 



F. 



Felling, Burning, etc. 142 

 Female Flowers 16, 101 



Fertilisation 17 



Fertilisers, Composition of 138 



, Mixing of 139 



Fibre, Coir 11 



, Exports of 168 



, Extraction of 30 



Field Culture 22 



Flower of the Coconut 16 



Fomes Lignosus 31 



Lucidus 32 



Foot-and-Mouth Disease 163 



Fruit Diseases 31 



Page. 

 G. 



Grass, Evil Effects of 106, 118 



Green Manuring 85, 97 



Grey Blight 31 



H. 



Harrowing 23 



Helminthosporium incurvatum 31 



Hesperid Caterpillar 52 



History of Coconuts 7 

 Holing of Coconut 



Estates 78, 84, 88, 143 



Hornets as Carriers of Pollen 19 



Humus, Increasing the 98 



Husk of the Coconut 20 



Hu<ks, Treatment of 30 



I. 



Illuk, Chipping of 



Eradication of 



Spraying of 



60 

 54 

 60 



Improvement of a Backward 



Estate 96 



Inflorescence 16, 101 



Inland Coconuts 21 



Insect Pests of Coconuts, Minor 51 

 Irrigation of Coconuts 98 



Jardine, Mr. William, on Illuk 56 

 Juglans Californica Quercina 34 



K. 



Kainit 99, 112 



Kernel of the Coconut 15, 20, 2l 



Labour, Cost of 9 



Land for Coconut Cultivation 82 



, Preparation of 143 



Leaf Break 31 



Die-back 31 



Diseases 31 



Drop 31 



Leaves of the Coconut 14, 124 



Light, Effect of, on Coconut 



Plants 15, 22, 88 



Traps for Caterpillars 50 



Lime in Agriculture If 7 

 in Coconut Cultiva- 

 tion 25, 111 



, Method of Application of 159 



Limestone, Ceylon 159 



Lining of Coconut Estates 77, 83, 87 

 Locust, Spotted 51 



