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average crop than forty nuts per tree, or, at the 

 most, fifty nuts from ten-year-old palms. 

 '* Yours, &c., 



" H. HAMEL SMITH, 



" Editor, Tropical Life" 



" 112, Fenctmrck Street, 

 " London, B.C., 



"February 24, 1913." 



As with the first, this the second edition 

 has my sincere good wishes ; I hope it will 

 have a wide circulation, especially among the 

 planting fraternity abroad, and fall into the 

 hands of those who will use it to benefit them- 

 selves as planters and producers, and not merely 

 to exploit the public as was done in far too 

 many cases in connection with the rubber 

 boom. In order to express these wishes, I am 

 making time on the eve of my departure 

 (September 20) for Australia and the South 

 Seas to add a second Foreword to the new 

 edition to wish it " Good Luck." 



Before concluding, I would like to add that 

 strong as was the case for the profitable outlook 

 of coco-nut planting when I wrote the Fore- 

 word to the first edition, it is stronger to-day. 

 Copra has still further advanced and the 

 prospects are that this advance has not yet 

 reached its ultimate limit, owing to the fact 

 that the oil from the coco-nut is found to make 

 the most excellent vegetable butter that can 

 be produced, equal in every way and in many 



