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rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) its descrip- 

 tion methods of catching it other remedies 

 Asiatic palm weevil or red beetle (Rhyncophorus 

 ferrugineus) how its presence is betrayed 

 Charles S. Banks on the pest Mr. Ridley's opinion 

 shot-hole weevil four spotted coco-nut weevil 

 coco-nut skipper and a caterpillar coccidae scale 

 insects and other troubles five scale insects the 

 best remedy to be rid of them the Pestalozzia 

 discussed again by Mr. Madanayake, Mr. Wick- 

 remaratne, and Mr. Fetch in Ceylon. 



MANURING - ... 279 



General notes water necessary to convey plant- 

 foods how the leaves draw up the water amount 

 of water transpired per day and year the import- 

 ance of sufficient water the soil on the sea-shore 

 and inland situation of estates drainage water 

 supplies engineering and medical science render- 

 ing the Tropics more possible selection of nuts- 

 different kinds discussed and illustrated the 

 advantages of each manuring in nursery work 

 are nurseries an unnecessary expense? i^-acre 

 nurseries per 100 acres to be planted watering 

 shading compost heaps storing and curing 

 the nuts double plantings transplanting its 

 dangers the low-vitality period when it occurs 

 the two-nursery system or planting at stake 

 Herbert S. Walker shows the plant-foods with- 

 drawn by the crops also by the leaves he dis- 

 cusses sea-shore and inland nuts the meat, copra 

 and oil contents of the nuts the variations in out- 

 put detailed analyses of the nuts and their con- 

 tents the soil near the sea manuring the plant- 

 food necessary per acre the use of salt kainit 

 perhaps better do not make manuring a fetish 

 where the palms thrive best home made manure- 

 heaps legumes or cover-cropsget rid of grass 

 its drawbacks when manures have most effect 

 cattle among the palms be discreet in applying 

 manures when to apply each kind nitrate of 

 soda guanos bone meal superphosphates 

 Thomas's phosphate systematic manuring by 

 cattle pigs on plantations poultry manuring 



