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compass is correct. The Pacific nut *is also 

 described as a free-sheller, with the same white 

 sweet meat, and, claim its admirers, the nuts 

 will probably run a little larger, certainly not 

 smaller, than those from San Bias. 



We have dwelt rather fully on these points, 

 as we have not seen them in print (we owe 

 them to the courtesy of some good friends 

 interested in planting within the Canal Zone), 

 and we feel that planters elsewhere than in 

 Panama may be glad to compare these par- 

 ticulars with their own nuts Should they wish 

 to obtain some Panama seed nuts, which we 

 believe can be purchased, to plant on their 

 lands, they must see which suit their locality 

 best, local nuts, or those they propose to import. 

 We have often been asked for particulars of 

 these nuts, and so seize the opportunity of 

 answering the various queries raised at once 

 and for all time. 



As is now generally recognized, the ebb and 

 flow of water in the sub-soil of coco-nut lands 

 suit the trees. For this reason some claim that 

 an additional advantage for Panama as a 

 producing centre lies in the great difference 

 between the rise and fall of the tides, which 

 register at times as much as 22 ft. on the 

 Pacific coast of Panama. Such a fall would 

 certainly assure good drainage, enabling, it is 

 said, the mangrove swamps even to be planted 

 with coco-nuts satisfactorily ; for although the 

 water rises over their feet, since they are not 



