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Grenada. 



Among the hilly, typically wooded islands Grenada represents 

 a decline in ruggedness of contour as compared with St. Vincent, 

 as the latter does in comparison with Dominica. 



Grenada has a central area of forest-clad hills, of which the 

 highest is 2,750 feet, but a great part of the island combines 

 easy slopes for cultivation with good natural shelter from low 

 ridges and has good or fair means of communication. Much 

 of the soil is very suitable to orchard crops, being of good depth 

 and heavy enough to be retentive. The average rainfall at 

 St. George's is about 75 inches, but totals of 100-150 inches are 

 not uncommon in some situations. 



Grenada M^as fortunate in being early to find in cacao a satis- 

 factory substitute for sugar-cane, and has since remained almost 

 completely a country of that one product. To the extent of the 

 limited demand, the growing of nutmegs provides an allied 

 industry, and in recent years the planting of coconuts on open 

 lands has been considerably stimulated. 



One or two sugar estates remain, and fair quantities of com 

 and the usual food-crops are raised by small holders. 



As a general rule the conditions are very suitable for the 

 growing of cacao without much loss from pod-rots or root 

 diseases induced by excessive humidity, or, on the other hand, 

 from dieback induced by poor conditions or drought. 



This balance of conditions is of course liable to be disturbed 

 by periods of more than usual wetness or dryness which lead 

 to the temporary increase of affections of the one type or the 

 other. 



Estates situated on the wetter hill slopes of the interior are 

 liable to have trouble, which in some cases is serious, with root 

 disease caused by Rosellinia Pepo. This species is rare near 

 the coast, but another member of the genus occurs which while 

 slower and less definite in its action appears to be capable of 

 causing root disease under drier conditions. 



The cacao estates in Grenada are relatively small and a more 

 intensive cultivation is practised than is the rule elsewhere. 

 Considerable use is made of pen manure, and it is the custom to 

 bury dead leaves, weeds, etc., about the roots of the trees. The 

 yield per acre is distinctly greater than in Trinidad. Very many 

 fields are grown without shade. 



Trinidad and Tobago. 

 The island of Trinidad, which has an area of 1,862 square 

 miles, lies about 16 miles to the eastward of Venezuela, between 

 10° 3' and 10° 50' N. latitude. The main body of the island has 

 a form approaching to a rectangle about 55 miles long and 35 

 broad, with large projections from the N.W. and S.W. angles 

 towards the South American coast. Enclosed by these is the 

 shitUow Gulf of Paria, the entrance to which from the south has 



