INDEX 



513 



planting at stake, 125 



planting by contract, 333 



planting distance and planting 

 methods, 120 : Ecuador, 295 ; Brazil, 

 308 ; San Thome, 320 ; Trinidad, 

 339 ; Grenada, 358 ; Venezuela, 



373 ; San Domingo, 378 ; Gold 

 Coast, 386 ; Ceylon, 398 ; Java, 

 409, 418 ; Surinam, 450 



platanos, 379. See also plantains 



podadera, 193, 301 



podon, 301 



pollarding the tree, 257 



pollination, 53 



Porcelaine variety, 78 



Porto Cabello, 368 



Porto Cabello cocoa (commercial), 486 



pots for cocoa-plants, 133, 409, 410 



powder (cocoa-), 9, 503 



price of production : in Ecuador, 305 ; 

 Java, 407 ; Surinam, 468 



prices (market-) in Europe and America, 

 493 ; in Grenada, 361 ; in Surinam, 

 469 ; in Nicaragua, 471, 493, 497 



Principe, 310 



production (world-), 499 



propagation (vegetative), 136 



pruning, 181 : Ecuador, 299 ; Brazil, 

 308 ; San Thome, 323 ; Trinidad, 

 344 ; Grenada, 359 ; Venezuela, 



374 ; Ceylon, 401 ; Java, 421 ; 

 Surinam, 453 ; Nicaragua, 478 



Pterocarpus indicus, 100 

 Pterocarpus marsupium, 100 

 Puerto Cabello. See Porto Cabello 



Quelite, 476 

 quicklime, 169 



rainfall in cocoa -countries, 16, 19: 



Trinidad, 329 ; Grenada, 357 ; 



Dominica, 361 ; Venezuela, 374 ; 



Gold Coast, 383 ; Kamerun, 394 ; 



Ceylon, 397; Java, 406; Surinam, 



442 



ramification of cocoa tree, 40 

 rampas method, 283, 422, 423 

 randoe. See kapok 

 rats, 126, 132, 285, 327, 423 

 replanting old fields, 97 

 Reunion, 365 ; soil analysis, 23 

 Ricinus communis, 114 

 rind-bug in Kamerun, 237. 278. 394 

 roempoet toeri, 115 

 rokko, 387 

 roofs (movable) for drying cocoa, 217, 



224 



root, 42 



root-diseases, 235, 242, 261 

 root-fungus, 243 



root-insects, 261 

 rorako, 115 

 rose apple, 100 



Saccharomyces, 205. See also yeast 



saddle-grafting, 137 



Sahlbergella singularis, 237, 238 



St. Lucia, 362 



St. Vincent, 362 ; soil analysis, 21, 

 23 



salt in soil, 24 



Samana, 378 



Samana cocoa (commercial), 407 



Samana-Sanchez, 487 



Saman. See Pithecolobium Saman 



Sambito, 83, 92, 372 



Samoa, 395 



Samoa Criollo, 76, 395 



sandbox-tree, 332, 452 



San Domingo, 377 ; historical, 11 



San Domingo cocoa (commercial), 487 



San Salvador, 474 



San Thome, 310 ; historical, 8, 11 ; 

 droughts, 17 



San Thome cocoa (commercial), 485 



San Thome creoulo, 91 



sanitation. See hygienic measures for 

 cocoa 



Sapium utile, 298 



sapodilla. See Achras Sapota 



Scapteriscus didactilus. See mole- 

 cricket 



Schinus terebinthifolius, 101 



Sciurus notatus, 287, 423 



Schleicheria, 283 



seed, analysis, 25, 29, 33 ; selection, 

 106; treatment before sowing, 107 



selection, 107 



sending cocoa - fruits to distant 

 countries, 105 



sengon djawa. See Albizzia stipulata 



sengon laut. See Albizzia moluccana 



sepals, 51 



Sesbania grandiflora, 408 



shade (temporary), 107 



shade trees, 97, 146 ; use of, 148 ; 

 cocoa-culture without, 124, 148, 

 176, 309, 354, 358, 360 ; shade trees 

 in Ecuador, 298 ; San Thome, 322 ; 

 Trinidad, 342; Grenada, 354, 358, 

 360 ; Dominica, 362 ; San Domingo, 

 379 ; Ceylon, 398 ; Java, 407, 

 416 ; Jamaica, 427 ; Surinam, 446, 

 454 ; Nicaragua, 476 



shells, use in manufacture, 504 



shelter-belts and wind-breaks, 97, 99 ; 

 in San Thome, 311, 323, 428 ; 

 Dominica, 362 ; Nicaragua, 476 



shoots, 41, 44 



Soconusco cocoa, 78, 473 



