240 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



Owing to the widespread distribution of the 

 bud-rot no coco-nut district in the American 

 Tropics is secure from danger of infection. 

 This bud-rot is due to a bacterial organism, 

 which may be distributed from place to place 

 on the green unhusked coco-nuts, and may be 

 carried to healthy trees by insects or other 

 animal life infesting diseased trees. 



It is recommended, therefore, to cut down all 

 badly diseased trees, or at least trim the tops 

 and set fire to them. All debris, fallen leaves, 

 nuts, &c., should be removed so as to destroy 

 any infected material and any breeding place 

 for insects which might serve to transmit the 

 disease. 



These ordinary methods of sanitation, to- 

 gether with proper methods of cultivation, if 

 carried out faithfully by the planters of a whole 

 district, will reduce the loss by this disease to a 

 minimum. 



STEM AND STEM-BLEEDING DISEASE. 



Stockdale does not touch on this in his 

 " Fungus Diseases of Coco-nuts," but the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture at Barba- 

 dos, in their booklet No. 70, gives it about 

 a page, in which we are told that it is caused 

 by a fungus, Thielaviopsis paradoxa, which is 

 also responsible for a rot of pine-apples and a 

 decay of cane-cuttings. Its spread in plant 

 tissues appears to be dependent on the amount 



