Preface xxi 



To help call attention to the advantages 

 and profits to be derived from the ''The Cult 

 of the Coco-nut," we have spared no pains in 

 placing before the reader in this book, so far 

 as the space of a portable hand-book will allow, 

 the complete subject of the coco-nut palm, its 

 cultivation, and the products to be obtained 

 therefrom, in as lucid and concise a manner as 

 possible, and have aimed at making each 

 section of it as self-contained an epitome as 

 feasible, so that without having to wade 

 through pages and pages of matter already 

 familiar and acquired, each reader may hit 

 readily upon such information as is of special 

 interest to him. This volume, in a word, has 

 been arranged so as to mainly deal in plain 

 language with the practical side of the Coco- 

 nut industry and to emphasize, in the first 

 place, all information which should lead to an 

 interest being taken in, and to the adoption of, 

 an Industry which has played, and is destined 

 to play in the near future, an important part in 

 the successful development of some of our 

 most promising Tropical Dependencies and 

 Colonies. The short ramble into the realm of 

 the history of the palm where we wander at 

 times will not prove, we trust, wearisome 

 and beyond the patience of the reader. The 

 article dealing with " Health in the Tropics" 

 will be found a homely but practical addition 

 for the vast body of readers, to whom the 

 Tropics are as yet a sealed book. The general 



