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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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FRONTISPIECE : A Young Coco-nut Tree Fruiting Heavily. 



SirW.H. Lever ... face xi 



Coco-nut Grove, Ten Years old, in Zambesia ... ... 23 



How Palms Yield in Federated Malay States 48 



Medal for Coco-nut Products ... 57 



A Fine Panama Seedling 110 



Preparing Copra in Samoa , 122 



The Rhino Beetle in its Various Stages 124 



Mr. Pape Drying Sisal in East Africa 144 



Cattle and Bananas in Mexico ... 154 



Lean Pigs on a Mexican Estate 158 



Two-year-old Coco-nuts in Zambesia ... ... ... 164 



A Stone-boat 170 



Seedling-nut split to show Interior and Sprout 180 



The Right and Wrong Way to Plant Seed-nuts 185 



Cooly laying in Seed-nuts 188 



Sprouting Seed-nuts ready to Plant out 189 



Cutlasses used by Natives in various centres ... ... 190 



Seedling, showing Roots and Foliage ... ... ... 192 



The " Ipswich" Cultivator for Coco-nut lands 208 



Six-year-old Coco-nuts in Zambesia ... 212 



A Bad Attack of Bud-rot in Trinidad 226 



Coco-nut Tree attacked by Bud-rot 232 



Incinerator for Burning Diseased Palms... ... ... 235 



Coco-nut Palm in Trinidad affected . both with Root 



Disease and Bud-rot ... ... ... ... ... 254 



Alexandra Coco-nut Estate, Ceylon 284 



Sections of five Seed-nuts, showing the best ... ... 286 



Applying Manure to Coco-nuts in Ceylon ... ... 296 



Manured Trees, Alexandra Estate, Ceylon ... ... 300 



Coco-nut Tree bearing fruit after being Manured ... 302 



Coco-nuts in Section face 316 



Implements Carved from Coco-nut Shells, East Africa... 350 



Drinking Green Coco-nut Milk 354 



Arrow-heads, Drum, &c., made from Coco-nuts ... 356 



Husking Coco-nuts by hand in the Philippines 368 



