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in Trinidad a description of it in Ceylon Mr. 

 Fetch's remedies -a bad cas6 in Ceylon described 

 beetles follow the trouble. 



Leaf Disease ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 244 



Details about it its effect on the flowers and nuts 

 how to avoid it how the palms become infected 

 encouraged in Trinidad by lack of cultivation and 

 drainage manuring discourages it burning the 

 best remedy then manure and spray theory of 

 Pestalozzia palmarum also causing leaf-disease 

 Stockdale's (W.I.) remedies how the disease 

 spreads tilling does the soil good Bordeaux 

 mixture or paste should be sprayed over the affected 

 trees how to make Bordeaux mixture damp 

 surroundings encourage disease manure, cultivate 

 and drain to keep it away. 



Root Disease 252 



Stockdale's opinion on the principal diseases how 

 to distinguish them root disease reduces the 

 tree's water supply how the disease may spread 

 possible ways of combating it the first signs of 

 trouble how to tell bud-rot from root disease 

 Fetch's details of the disease in Ceylon " little 

 leaf" trouble Stockdale's description in West 

 Indies the question of remedies burning must 

 be carried out clean plantations less affected 

 Pros and cons of catch-crops better cultivation 

 and drainage needed also sufficient plant food 

 and manure crop trebled by manuring a possible 

 disease-resisting species. 



Other Pests ..; ... 265 



Six sucking insects three biting insects other 

 troubles insecticides and how to make them 

 whale-oil soap kerosene emulsion rosin wash 

 rosin compound rosin and whale-oil soap com- 

 pound whale-oil soap and kerosene emulsion. 



Application of Insecticides 268 



(See also " Mechanical Appliances " p. 579) Charles 

 S. Banks (P.I.)> on coco-nut pests the beetles 



