LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



HUSKED NUT BISECTED, SHOWING WHITE FLESH 



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PACING PAGE 



COCONUT FLOWER SYSTEM 11 



COCONUT PALMS VIGOROUS AT SIXTY 14 



A WELL-KEPT FIELD OF COCONUT PALMS 24 



A NEGLECTED FIELD OF COCONUT PALMS 25 



SPECIMEN MALABAR TREE IN FULL BEARING 28 



FRUIT OF COCONUT AT DIFFERENT STAGES FROM 



BLOSSOM TO FRUIT 31 



ENTIRE COCONUT FRUIT 44 



SECTION OF FRUIT SHOWING EMBEDDED NUT 55 



A HUSKED COCONUT 63 



CLEARED ESTATE, SHOWING LALANG IN BACKGROUND 70 



ONE-YEAR-OLD TREES, OLDER TREES IN BACKGROUND 75 



SEED NUT AFTER GERMINATION 88 



TYPICAL FIELD OF YOUNG COCONUT PALMS (MALABAR) 100 



FIVE-YEAR-OLD TREES IN A RESPONSIVE SOIL ... 110 



RHINOCEROS BEETLE AND LARVA 114 



NATIVES HUSKING COCONUTS (MALABAR) 119 



NATIVE WOMEN MAKING COIR YARN (MALABAR) ... 121 



PRIMITIVE METHOD OF COPRA-DRYING 125 



MODERN COPRA-DRYING " HAMEL SMITH " HOT- AIR 



ROTARY DRYING MACHINE . ... 128 



