CANE SUGAR. 



green with red streaks rather than stripes and remarkable for the intense 

 whiteness of its ground tissue. 



In my earlier work, " Sugar and the Sugar Cane," I stated that the Black 

 Tanna was the same as the Tibho Etam or Black Java, and that the Striped 

 Tanna was the Cherihon cane. This very serious mis-statement I now know to 

 be an error ; it was made on the verbal information of a Java resident of several 

 years' standing. On the same authority I said that Tanna was the Javanese 

 term for ' rich earth} whence was derived the name of these canes ; the term 

 Tanna in this case actually refers to the island of that name in the South 

 Pacific; 'tanah' is, however, a Javanese word roughly equivalent to 'clay.' 

 The SalangfOre Cane. Wray 6 describes this cane as, in his opinion, 

 the finest in the world. He mentions that it is remarkable for an excessive 

 quantity of cane itch ; that the leaves when dry are peculiarly adherent, and 

 comments on the large amount of cane wax on the stem, whence have arisen 

 the Malay terms Tibboo biltong berabou and Tibboo cappor. 



Wray's opinion has not been supported by other planters, and the 

 following remark due to Harrison 13 aptly describes this cane : 



" Some of us will doubtless recollect the time when Mr. A. would plant a few 

 acres of Salangore cane in the hopes of getting better field returns, and richer cane 

 juice ; how these Salangores in some years flourished and raised hopes of heavy 

 returns of sugar, how in others they unaccountably languished; but how, whether 

 they flourished or languished, one thing invariably characterized them miserably 

 poor juice and consequent loss of money." 



In the literature of sugar cane expressions of opinion leading to similar 

 conclusions can be found, the cane being sometimes condemned, and at other 

 times referred to in extravagant terms ; it is so well characterized however that 

 there seems to be no possibility of doubt as to its identity, and the conclusion 

 is reached that it is a variety particularly susceptible to obscure local con- 

 ditions. This cane at the time of writing does not seem to be under extensive 

 cultivation ; it is apparently grown to some extent in Porto Rico and Brazil, 

 and is again being cultivated in Demerara under the name of Green Trans- 

 parent. In Spanish writings dealing with the sugar cane a variety is referred 

 to as Canne Rocha, or Waxy cane, which in certain references would appear 

 to be this cane. Harrison and Jenman 3 thus describe this cane as it appears in 

 the Georgetown Botanical Gardens : 



Salangore. Canes numerous, erect, rather under average height, of 

 nearly average girth, much under average length of internodes, nodes slightly 

 contracted, colour whitish or greyish, suffused often with a grey hue, and 

 touched with carmine where sun-exposed. (Rarely arrows.) Panicles large, 

 copiously bunched and flowered, and well projected. 



In addition to the native Malay terms of Tibboo biltong berabou and 

 Tibboo capper given by Wray, Delteil gives Pinang and Chinese (in Bourbon) 

 as synonyms, and Harrison and Jenman give the name White Mauritius (in 

 Demerara), and the term chalk cane is also met with. 



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