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have good results. A pound or two of coarse 

 salt is wrapped in a piece of the fibrous portion 

 of the leaf sheath and securely fastened to the 

 youngest leaves. The rains dissolve the salt 

 gradually and carry enough down to the leaf 

 sheaths to act as a disinfectant. Spraying with 

 Bordeaux mixture and arsenate of lead would 

 be a much surer way of accomplishing the same 

 result ; Woburn Bordeaux paste is also good. 

 The spraying of coco-nut trees is not at all 

 an impossible thing to do, and is quite prac- 

 tical. We also discuss this at the end of the 

 book. 



As stated at the beginning, these questions of 

 coco-nut diseases, and especially bud-rot, are 

 being so thoroughly studied and followed that 

 we must be excused if we do not pretend to 

 deal exhaustively even with the literature on the 

 subject, much less with the disease itself. As 

 an instance of this we received, whilst pre- 

 paring the proofs for press, a book on bud-rot 

 disease alone, 1 as large, or almost as large, as 

 this one, were it put up in the same type and 

 size of pages. 



Under such circumstances all we can do is to 

 quote the following, and then refer our readers 

 to the Department at Washington for a copy of 

 the bulletin. We found no mention as to price 



1 This is " The History and Cause of the Coco-nut 

 Bud-Rot," by Mr. John R. Johnston (already quoted), 

 Assistant Pathologist, Laboratory of Plant Pathology, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 

 228, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D.C., 

 * United States of America. No price mentioned. 



