428 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



Year 



8th 



9th 



loth 



nth 



I2th 



Expenditure 



Revenue 



i5th 

 i6th 

 i;th 



i,566 

 1,605 

 i, 680 

 2,160 



2,504 

 2,522 



2,528 



2,555 

 2,611 



34,671 



497 

 i, 066 

 2,048 



3.523 

 4,801 



5,986 

 6,948 



7,375 

 32,44! 



At the end of the eighth year, as can be 

 seen, the expenditure amounts to 14,940 ; 

 from the ninth to the twelfth year there is 

 a further expenditure (over revenue and there- 

 fore of capital) amounting to 3,203 before 

 the estate becomes self-supporting. Therefore 

 the actual expenditure required, according to 

 the above estimate, to bring an estate of 550 

 acres into bearing would be ,18,143. (A 

 Trinidad dollar = 45. 2d. ; 100 cents = $i ;. 

 $480 = 100.) 



Our readers can judge from the illustration 

 of the double-headed coco-nut tree, shown on 

 p. 424, how freely the palms bear in the West 

 Indies. We first noticed this wonderful palm 

 in the second edition of the M Guide to the 

 West Indies," by Mr. Algernon E. Aspinall, 

 editor of The West Indian Committee Circular, 

 through whose assistance, with that of Messrs. 

 Lade and Co., of London, we secured the 

 loan of the block. 



